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It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her. - Joseph Addison There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. - Joseph Addison The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. - Aeschylus Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. - Hosea Ballou It is a pretty general rule that the medistante is a termagant in her household; and as for our own sex, in nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man. - George Bancroft Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. - Isaac Barrow Life would be a perpetual flea-hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and suspicions which are uttered against him. - Henry Ward Beecher Slander meets no regard from noble minds; only the base believe what the base only utter. - John Bellers Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law but a judge. - Bible, James (ch. IV, v. 11) The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us. - Herman Boerhaave When the tongue of slander stings thee, let this be thy comfort,--they are not the worst fruits on which the wasps alight. - Gottfried Augustus Burger The feeblest vermin can destroy, As sure as stoutest beasts of prey; And only with their eyes and breath Infect, and poison men to death. - Samuel Butler (1) Does not the law of Heaven say blood for blood? And he who taints kills more than he who sheds it. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Skilled by a touch to deepen scandal's tints, With all the kind mendacity of hints, While mingling truth with falsehood, sneers with smiles, A thread of candor with a web of wiles; A plain blunt show of briefly-spoken seeming, To hide her bloodless heart's soul-harden'd scheming; A lap of lies, a face formed to conceal; And, without feeling, mock at all who feel: With a vile mask the Gorgon would disown, A cheek of parchment, and an eye of stone. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Slander is the balm of malignity. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort Slanderers are at all events economical for they make a little scandal go a great way, and rarely open their mouths except at the expense of other people. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. - Charles Churchill To be continually subject to the breath of slander will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded. - Charles Caleb Colton Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. - Confucius All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. - Sir William D'Avenant The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you. - Alexandre Dumas pere 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) If any one tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, do not make excuse about what is said of you, but answer: "He was ignorant or my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone." - Epictetus The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. - Henry Fielding I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. - John Gay, The Poet and the Rose Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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