Slander Quotes

118 quotes by 95 authors

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the… — Walter Cronkite
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is… — Saint Basil
Slander is the tool of cowards. — Vanna Bonta
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it. — Vanna Bonta
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear… — Criss Jami
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it… — Criss Jami
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness… — Charles Caleb Colton
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our… — Charles Caleb Colton
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. — Victor Hugo
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. — H. L. Mencken
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper… — Karl Rove
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not… — Margaret Thatcher
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. — William Shakespeare
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; â€™tis something, nothing;… — William Shakespeare
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get… — Mark Twain
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. — Charles Spurgeon

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