Doe Quote by Plautus

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to…

— Jonathan Swift

“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”

— Kamand Kojouri

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the…

— Herman Boerhaave

So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what…

— Laurence Sterne

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners…

— 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…

— Plautus

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by…

— Plautus

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there…

— Douglas William Jerrold

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

— William Shakespeare

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

— Aeschylus

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…

— C. S. Lewis

The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers…

— Mao Zedong

“Slander does to a soul what cancer does to a cell.”

— Criss Jami

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…

— Alfred the Great