Quotes About Slander

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

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

Goodness me, someone's been rumour-mongering for all he's worth, eh?

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Some of the information in those binders was even manipulated to appear more damaging to Oppenheimer.

A membership or community website that allows bullying of authors and their members to bring in traffic, is appalling and should be held accountable for hate speech, libel, and slander. It breaks down the community, condones bullying, and sets a tone for their teen members and members of any age to become bullies themselves. - Kailin Gow, October is Bully Awareness Speech.

Slander boldly, something always sticks [Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret]

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." —Ephesians 4:31-32

slander is a more cruel weapon than a sword, as the wounds which the former gives are always incurable.

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will.

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse . . .

You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash' but you can't go on television and slander a person's career. It's illegal, even on reality shows.

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.

The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

Opinion is not slander.