Libel Quotes
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Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.
— Theodore Dwight Weld
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
— Larry Kramer
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
— Rupert Murdoch
In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.
— Orrin Woodward
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
— Ian Hislop
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
— Victoria Woodhull
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
— Stephen Leacock
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.
— Leslie Meier
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
— William Hazlitt
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
— Walter Cronkite
The blood libel took possession of the popular mind most rabidly in Germany, where the well-poisoning charge too had originated in the 12th century.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.
— Mason Cooley
No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Libel settles nothing.
— George Orwell
If God is good half the Bible is libel.
— Michael R. Burch
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
— Lee Kuan Yew
RUMOUR:Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. — William Shakespeare
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel.
— David Cordingly
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
— James Thurber
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
— G.K. Chesterton
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
— Uri Geller
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
— Geoffrey Gorer
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
— Albert Einstein
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
— Bill Moyers
Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
— Jean Giono
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
— Richard Dawkins
Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
— Patrick Kavanagh
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
— Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
— John Selden
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
— Mark Twain