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Quotes About Slander

Obscuring the drama of Emily Dickinson's legacy have been the dustheaps of slander and sentimental conjecture that fortified the battlers in the war between the houses.
~ Lyndall Gordon
I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander
~ Mahmoud Darwish
You hear some guys might be looking at porn, some guys might be getting their knobs polished by the street girls, that some guys have a little too much cash, that some cocaine's gone astray . . . you hear all that crap. And most of it's crap. Backbiting bullshit.
~ John Sandford
There is a stench when somebody wants to fuck your name. It rolled across with the smile
~ John Steakley
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam
~ Barack Obama
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
~ Auguste Rodin
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ Anonymous
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Without defamation, there is no longer slander,
~ Unknown
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
Posso querelare per diffamazione un tizio che mi accusa nero su bianco di avere picchiato mia moglie, di essere un plagiario, uno spacciatore, un alcolizzato con tendenze violente, e con tutta probabilità anche un assassino?" "Non saprei. Mi sembra che il tizio sia piuttosto bene informato".
~ Mordecai Richler
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Feudal anarchy" is the word which democratic terrorism uses to slander the only period of tangible freedom known to us.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
~ Oscar Wilde
Rumor exaggerates.
~ Patricia Briggs
In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.
~ Unknown
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
~ Leviticus 19:16
and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
~ 2 Samuel 19:27