Quotes About Defamation

apparently London gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Brazzaville, too!...and said that I'm a dirty pornographer...a letch besides being the most despicable traitor of the century!...I'd make a urinal blush! that what we need is to cleanse France and the French language of this smut-writing, demoralizing, grammaclast who's sullying our sacred homeland and its literary heritage!

Ils racontaient sur mon compte des horreurs à n'en plus finir et des mensonges à s'en faire sauter l'imagination.

Mayhap after I kill ye, I'll swive her a time or two. She seems to like japin', and I'm told I'm good at it, so I might yet convince her. Claray snorted at the claim. No' if what the lasses say is true. They say ye've a prick like a string bean and can no' get it hard without hurtin' a lass first. Pathetic, she pronounced.

She was not just inviting scandal, she was inviting it in partnership with ridicule.

If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.

Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could "Kiss my arse.

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

In attempting to determine how Adolf Hitler had taken control, the US Office of Strategic Services commissioned a report in 1943 that explained his strategy: "Never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind."8 Soon hyperbole, extremism, defamation, and slander become commonplace and acceptable vehicles of power.

When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander.

If any man accuseth me to my face, I will answer him with my mouth; but my tail is good enough to return an answer to such who traduceth [slanders] me behind my back. —Sir Walter Ralegh

All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death, defamation, and conspiracy—and all that delights or gives pain to fools.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

Get off me, you lard-ass, halitosis, flea-infested horror-movie reject! (Alexion)

screwed blued and tattooed

They beat me, and fucked me in every hole I had. I was their whore. Their maid. A stool they stood on when they wanted to reach a little higher. But I never sang in their cage, Bobby. Not one note.

Those who stay close by me, then, To damage my good name and cut me down to size— Are surely there protecting me From falling into realms of grief.

No tengas miedo de la difamación externa. Teme a tus propios pensamientos, pues solamente ellos pueden penetrar tu esencia y destruirla.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.