Calumny Quotes

Calumny Quote of the day

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Something of calumny always sticks.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

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

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.