Quotes About Slander

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

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

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.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

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

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.

If you find yourself filled with anxiety, recall the many thorns that Jesus endured, and you will—and with greater calm—bear whatever annoyances may come from others, even serious headaches, and what is usually the most troublesome, the sharp thorns of calumny and slander.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

When others, out of Jealousy, Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat And offering the victory to them.

Let's be honest. Chad is not an exception. Our churches have long been filled with people who claim to be Christ followers but who live like pagans. Our lives have not been all that different when it comes to things such as divorce, sexual purity, forgiving those who wrong us, loving our enemies, slander, gossip, and the harder things of discipleship.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

for the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?

As my actual value drops, however, my metaphorical value increases—proof that poetry is consolation to life's miseries. But despite all such heartless comparison and thoughtless slander, I've realized that a large majority do sincerely love me. In this age of hatred, such heartfelt—even impassioned—affection ought to gladden us all. —Counterfeit Gold Coin

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.

Nessuna condotta, neppure la più corretta, può sfuggire alla malevolenza della calunnia.

The old are still accorded human rights. The dead, however, lose all rights from the very first second of death. No law protects them any longer from slander, their privacy has ceased to be private; not even the letters written to them by their loved ones, not even the family album left to them by their mothers, nothing, nothing belongs to them any longer.