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Quotes About Defamation

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!
~ Chris Crutcher
Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.
~ Christina Stead
an increasing number of court cases in which relatives of deceased perpetrators brought ideologically charged cases for defamation against historians and journalists who had examined instances of Francoist crime,
~ Helen Graham
They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.
~ Leslie Meier
She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.
~ Jasper Fforde
The other kids threw bars of soap at her, pushed one another into her path and wrote graffiti about her on the bathroom walls. In return, she cursed them out in Latin.
~ Unknown
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
~ Kurt Huber
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
~ Julian Assange
Done to death by slanderous tongue
~ William Shakespeare
He is no better than an epileptic corpse.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Little did I know—once smeared, always vulnerable.
~ Woody Allen
You . . . person," he says; and again, "you nobody from Hell, you whore-spawn, you cluster of evil, you lawyer.
~ Hilary Mantel
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
~ Unknown
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
~ Philip Roth
Salidos aquéllos del adoratorio, tiraron las imágenes al suelo, las cubrieron con tierra y orinaron encima";
~ Tzvetan Todorov
The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it.
~ Vanna Bonta
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Madame de Bargeton iba a encontrarse en esa tesitura en la que se han encontrado multitud de mujeres que se han perdido solo después de haber sido injustamente acusadas.
~ Honore de Balzac
Kiss my ass, ya shiksa!
~ Howard Schultz
Son of a stadium full of bitches.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
~ Richard Burton
We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.
~ Denis Napthine
if I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap you call brains.
~ Jim Thompson