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Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. - Hosea Ballou There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Felix Holt (introduction) I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. - John Gay, The Poet and the Rose A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 43), (Pope's translation) Defamation is becoming a necessity of life; inasmuch as a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant. - Thomas Jefferson If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. - Douglas William Jerrold, Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--Slander Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true. - Ben Jonson, Catiline (act III, sc. 1) Cut Men's throats with whisperings. - Ben Jonson, Sejanus (act I, sc. 1) Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision--the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) 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 (Titus Maccius Plautus), Persa (act III, sc. 1), (Riley's translation) 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. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant, Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Pseudolus (I, 5, 12) To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. - Edgar Allan Poe 'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. - Robert Pollok, Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 725) Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. - Sir Walter Scott Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. - William Shakespeare No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Pisanio at III, iv) And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i) God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Antonio at V, i) Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at V, iii) I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at IV, ii) That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time; For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present'st a pure unstained prime. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet LXX . . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Baltzhazar at III, i) I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear, The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood Which breathed this poison. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, i) If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to him. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at III, ii) He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai E. Stevenson Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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