Slander Quotes
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Socrates -
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
George Washington
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Bernard Joseph Saurin -
I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
Daniel Cormier -
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
Thomas Carlyle -
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Douglas Jerrold -
Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.
Daniel Lapin -
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Moliere -
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
William Shakespeare -
Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.
William Shakespeare -
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
William Shakespeare -
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
William Shakespeare -
Brooklyn praise is half slander.
Mark Twain -
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
William Shakespeare -
Slander is the balm of malignity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
Oswald Chambers
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RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare -
On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
William Shakespeare -
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare -
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
William Shakespeare