Slander Quotes

“Calumny, sir! You don't know what you're despising. I have seen the worthiest people nearly crushed by it.”

“Slander, my lord! You know not what you despise; I have seen the greatest of men brought low by it.”

“Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in.”

“To slander those who tell us truths is to admit that we are guilty.”

“The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue.”

“It is a tragedy that we have to live in a time when words are twisted out of their meaning and a man's reputation can be destroyed by a whisper.”

“Calumny is a snake nourished in the grass of a gossip's lawn.”

“Gossip is a beast of prey that does not wait for the death of the body to devour the character.”

“There is no protection against slander.”

“Calumny is a wicked thing.”

“Slander is the revenge of cowards.”

“Gossip and slander die at the ears of the wise.”

“Calumny is like a wasp; if you don't kill it, it will sting you again.”

“La calomnie, monsieur? Vous ne savez guère ce que vous dédaignez. J'ai vu les plus honnêtes gens près d'en être accablés.”

“He had a deep and abiding belief in the curative power of the aspersion, and was convinced that if you threw enough mud, some of it was bound to stick.”

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

“Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which you must not try to get rid of unless you are sure of killing it.”