Quotes About Slander

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

She was a big ol' ho," Riley told her brother. "She put out more than the Tab machine in the Tri-Delta house.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

al que toma el camino de las cumbres, los envidiosos le carcomen la reputación con saña malévola;

Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Hate-filled people easily believe and repeat slanderous lies about innocent men.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

When it comes to defamation, slander, or libel, the truth is an absolute defense to the allegation.

Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, derided her as the "instrument of Satan," the new Eve, and the "enemy of the chosen people." In summing her up, Winthrop called her "this American Jezebel"—the emphasis is his—making an epithet of the name that any Puritan would recognize as belonging to the most evil and shameful woman in the Bible.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

People who have repeated a slander either get ashamed or forget it if they're let alone. Challenge them, and in self-defense they believe everything they've said; they'd rather believe you a sinner than believe themselves liars, naturally. Submit to gossip and you kill it, fight it, and you make it strong. People will forget almost any slander except the one that's been fought.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.