Assassins Quote by Tryon Edwards

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of…

— Tryon Edwards

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

— Josh Billings

Slander is poison to the soul.

— David O. McKay

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

— Alexander Cockburn

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

— Isaac Barrow

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

— Leon Trotsky

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

— Samuel Johnson

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

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

— Bernard of Clairvaux

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

— Aeschylus

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

— Anonymous

Slander jealousy it is worse than tongue can utter.

— Kishore Bansal