Slander Quotes

118 quotes by 95 authors

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss. — Sophocles
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms,… — Sarah Bernhardt
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh,… — Carl Perkins
You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. — Walter F. Mondale
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner. — Leon Trotsky
Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy… — Wayne D. Dosick
There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. — Jonathan Swift
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does… — Plautus
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. — Plautus
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Luc de Clapiers
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:… — Ambrose Bierce
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. — Samuel Johnson
Cut Men's throats with whisperings. — Ben Jonson
Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true. — Ben Jonson
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For… — Chanakya
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux

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