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Quotes About Defamation

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.
~ Henry Miller
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 . . .
~ Henry Miller
They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
~ Richard J. Daley
I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?
~ Christopher Titus
On July 13, 1998, after eight months of protracted and acrimonious legal wrangling, a six-person jury decided that Sharpton, Mason, and Maddox indeed had defamed Pagones. Sixteen days later, they assessed Sharpton $65,000 in damages, Maddox $95,000, and Mason $185,000.
~ Stephen G. Michaud
Opinion is not slander.
~ Mazie Hirono
There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
~ Ricky Williams
Now be a dear and fuck the fuck off.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Tu haras que ese nombre sea vil, sucio y despreciable y toda la gente al decirlo escupira en el! - Mixtli a Ce-Malinali
~ Gary Jennings
You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on!
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.
~ Kurt Andersen
We've noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there, trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave. It's just another example, as far as we're concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person.
~ Paul Manafort
Let them say what they say. The truth is, I did not engage in corruption.
~ Suharto
The truth is truth. I have never made a charge in my political career of 30 years where I have been disapproved. No defamation case has succeeded against me.
~ Subramanian Swamy
Worm says fuck you, Assail!
~ Steven Erikson
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
~ Alberto Fujimori
You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
You think I'm a sissy? I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.
~ Catullus
Fuck you," whispers Slothrop. It's the only spell he knows, and a pretty good all-purpose one at that.
~ Thomas Pynchon
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
~ Camille Paglia
Deirdre threw the recorder onto the table. Nagrad's face, frozen on the screen, mocked her with grey eyes. "What do you want from me, Robert? Every time I tried to bring up the money, he would show me more porn. The man asked me if I would suck his cock! How do you counter that?" A soft voice interrupted, "By saying, 'That would depend on the size of your instrument, my lord. Would you care to take off your pants so I can determine if it would be a good fit?
~ Ilona Andrews