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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

False praise can please, and calumny affright
None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. — Horace

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. — Charles Caleb Colton

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave

Something of calumny always sticks. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. — Plutarch

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. — Robert Emmet

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. — Horace

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca The Younger

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Calumnies are answered best with silence. — Ben Jonson

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself. — Pope Francis

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? — Plautus

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane De Poitiers

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. — Francis Bacon

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes

Genius involves both envy and calumny. — Alexander Pope

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi

Calumny is the offspring of Envy. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. — Mary Stewart

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. — Ovid

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ... — Joseph Smith Jr.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton