Being Quote by Simon Singh

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a…

— Edward Coke

As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to…

— David Hunt

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in…

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

— Lee Kuan Yew

In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much…

— Graydon Carter

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification…

— Richard Steele

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges…

— Toussaint Louverture

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred…

— Charles Bradlaugh

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he…

— Caitlin Thomas

If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.

— Ricky Whittle

Any unfair and scandalous allegations made by disgruntled litigants will be ignored and recognised for what they are by the public, and can be…

— Prashant Bhushan

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld