Ears Quote by 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

Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

“O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile And teach me how to curse mine enemies! QUEEN MARGARET. Forbear to sleep the nights, and…

— William Shakespeare

“I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devis’d…

— William Shakespeare

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

— Leonhard Euler

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

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

— George Herbert

“Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts,…

— Mervyn Peake

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A wicked tongue: Slander, gossip, cussing, sarcasm, poisonous tongue, bearing false witness, and murmuring.”

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division,…

— Thomas Browne