Quotes About Slander

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

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.

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutley and entirely true.

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

Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.

the ancient blood libel: that every year at Passover, Jews ritually slaughter Christian children and use their blood to bake matzo.

A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

To ruin someone it doesn't have to be true, it just has to be said.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

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.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.

Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

The eminent virtue of calumny is that it produces a vacuum around you without your having to raise a finger.

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

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Follow the habit of asking, 'How do you know' Never accept opinions as facts. Avoid following free advice. Don't trust information given in a discourteous or slanderous spirit. In asking for information, do not disclose what you wish the information to be.

The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it.