Slander Quotes

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

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 is the slime.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

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 ears.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

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 by the ears.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Slander is poison to the soul.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

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

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.