Slander-mongers Quotes

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. — Plautus

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

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

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes. — Carl Perkins

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships. — Anthony Liccione

There is no protection against slander. — Moliere

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel! — Rudyard Kipling

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

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. — Jean Giraudoux

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. — Jonathan Swift

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged
the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. — Plautus

Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain. — Dada Bhagwan

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one. — Thomas Watson

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it. — John Webster

Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen. — Kabir

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. — Charles Portis

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear. — William Shakespeare

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength. — H.W. Brands

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone. — Dada Bhagwan

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal — Agota Kristof

How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander. — Jane Austen

Happiness is always subject to slander. — Francoise Sagan

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin

RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. — William Shakespeare

Slander is the solace of malignity. — Joseph Joubert

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. — Walter F. Mondale

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer. — Muhammad Ali

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander. — Terry Pratchett

Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. - MARTIN LUTHER — Christopher Hitchens

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified. — Charles Spurgeon

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau

Slander is the tool of cowards. — Vanna Bonta

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. — Anne Bronte

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him. — Oswald Chambers

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge! — Winfield Scott

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. — Victor Hugo

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. — Plato

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus

Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. — Mark Twain

Slander is the balm of malignity. — Nicolas Chamfort

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit. — Dada Bhagwan

I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander — Mahmoud Darwish

How much an ill word may empoison liking! — William Shakespeare

Slander is worse than cannibalism. — John Chrysostom

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam — Barack Obama

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. — Ron Paul

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. — Abraham Lincoln

All those who slight me to my face,
Or do me any other evil,
Even if they blame or slander me,
May they attain the fortune of enlightenment! — Shantideva

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin

That is a sexist and, if I may dare say so, ungallant slander upon the fair sex, and I am astonished to hear it coming from your mouth. — George R R Martin

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail. — William Shakespeare

Her wrinkles were like slander. Her voice was akin to a beating with a stick. — Markus Zusak

They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander. — Leo Tolstoy

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. — Moliere

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold

If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside. — Phil Lester

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects. — Daniel Lapin

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami

Those who murder fame
Kill more than life destroyers. — Richard Savage

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them. — Criss Jami

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them. — Lana Del Rey

We just wanted to see whose dick was in yer mouth. Call it curiosity. — Jason Medina

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears. — Joseph Hall

To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed. — Jordan Carl Curtis

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness. — Blaise Pascal

Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look. — Randy Alcorn

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. — Henry Fielding

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. — Barack Obama

Slander is poison to the soul. — David O. McKay

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare

Gossip, slander and jealousy have caused more pain than many wars. — Heather Wolf

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt. — David Halberstam

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it. — Vanna Bonta

In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death. — John Clare

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander. — Maximus The Confessor

Brooklyn praise is half slander. — Mark Twain

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Luc De Clapiers

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. — Hosea Ballou

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot. — William Shakespeare

it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said. — Monica Ferris

the slander pattern with an open mind. — Urvish Kantharia

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. — Charles Churchill

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings