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Quotes About Defamation

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hoje, o sujeito prefere que lhe xinguem a mãe e não o chamem de reacionário.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
~ Kingsley Amis
Fuck you and the bird you flew in on. -Julija, page 23
~ Christine Feehan
Unfortunately, this type of character defamation often follows the victim doggedly, and on occasion, has done irreparable damage. If retractions are printed, which is rare in the offending newspapers, they are seldom noted by the reader. I think it can be compared adequately to taking a bag full of feathers to a high hill and throwing them into the wind--retrieving all of them would be an impossible job.
~ Christine Jorgensen
the Clinton administration always had its banana republic side. For all the talk about historic presidential "philandering," it is hard to recall any other White House which has had to maintain a quasi-governmental or para-state division devoted exclusively to the bullying and defamation of women. Like
~ Christopher Hitchens
What's the book about? I must admit I haven't read it. It's over five hundred pages long, which is a mistake — any defamatory work ought to be readable in half an hour. =
~ Umberto Eco
I go to the rail and shout after her as she descends the stairs, "But that Mrs. Shinn called me a whore! In front of everybody!" She pauses on the middle steps and looks up at me. "Perhaps, Miss Faber, it is because you continually act like one!
~ L.A. Meyer
Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.
~ Cassandra Clare
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
~ Catullus
Godverdomme,' zei hij, 'gooi iemand anders wat op zijn poten.
~ Gerard Reve
Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.
~ Chung Mong-joon
Any unfair and scandalous allegations made by disgruntled litigants will be ignored and recognised for what they are by the public, and can be dealt with under the law of civil and criminal defamation.
~ Prashant Bhushan
The SPLC pretends to oppose 'hate,' but actually spreads hate and defamation, with the support of the media and government.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
~ Herodotus
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
~ Plautus
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
~ Richard Jewell
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
~ Edward Coke
Nobody is allowed to make money by defaming me. I may forgive, but I'll never forget.
~ Govinda
Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.
~ John McAfee
I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.
~ Jessica Origliasso
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
~ Chuck Palahniuk