Quotes About Slander

Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

That is a sexist and, if I may dare say so, ungallant slander upon the fair sex, and I am astonished to hear it coming from your mouth.

I will not suffer to be called a whore!" Why, sister, he never claims Jaime paid you.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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

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

I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Memorably, he said, "I had rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: "If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. —MARTIN LUTHER

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts.

No one, he believed, should abuse the faith by slandering others for their beliefs.

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.

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

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.