SLANDER QUOTES

quotations about slander

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, November 28, 1796

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Slander is an admission that you don't have anything else worthwhile to say. It is a clear indication of both your personal emotional bankruptcy and the paucity of whatever arguments you are advancing.

REBECCA HAMILTON, "Slander is Murder with Words", Patheos, October 18, 2013

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Slanderers are a species of creatures, so great a scandal to human nature, as scarce to deserve the name of men. They are, for the generality, a composition of the most detestable vices, price, envy, lying, hatred, uncharitableness, etc... And yet it is a lamentable truth that these wretches swarm in every town, and lurk in every village; and, actuated by these base principles, are ever busied in attacking the characters of mankind; none are too good or too great to escape the level of their envenomed dart; nor does the inefficacy of their malicious intentions in the least deter them from persevering in their villainy.

WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine

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

CRISS JAMI, Killosophy

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

ALEXANDER POPE, "Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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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, Following the Equator

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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, Pseudolus

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SLANDERING others is a sin too common now-a-days, and is very cowardly, as the slandered person has not the opportunity of defending him or herself. It is an attempt to ruin a fellow creature when we think we are free from danger. It is an "agrarian outrage," an attempt to shoot from behind a hedge, or high wall; to stab in the dark. Never join in slandering others; it lowers you in your own estimation, and that of mankind, and makes you feel ashamed to look in the face the person you have so slandered, the next time you meet him or her, and often to act the hypocrite. Likewise sometimes causes you to be guilty of ingratitude, for he or she you have slandered, may in former times have befriended you either by word or deed. If you cannot speak good of any persons, far better say nothing at all about them than lower yourself by speaking evil about them; however much at the time you may think they deserve it. You will feel far more satisfied with yourself afterwards if you act thus; for, by so acting, you have no fault to find hereafter with your own conduct; for, to please oneself, is, or ought to be, to please the hardest, and the most exacting of all taxmasters. Never try to exalt yourself on the ruins of another man's character.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH, "On Slandering Others", Short Essays

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Edwin Stanton, July 14, 1864

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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

ALEXANDER POPE, The Odyssey of Homer

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Slander is a blighting sirocco; its pestiferous breath pollutes with each respiration; its forked tongue is charged with the same poison; it searches all corners of the world for victims; it sacrifices the high and low, the king and the peasant, the rich and poor, the matron and maid, the living and the dead; but delights most in destroying worth and immolating innocence.

HENRY F. KLETZING, "Slander", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light

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Slander slays three people: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.

HEBREW PROVERB

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So thou be good, slander doth but approve

Thy worth the greater.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LXX

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The word's on the street

You call it truth, I call it slander

Times are tough, talk is cheap

SURVIVOR, "Slander"

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We should no less hate to tell, than to hear slander; if we cannot stop others' mouths, let us stop our own ears; the receiver is as bad as the thief.

BISHOP HENSHAW, "Golden Rules", The Christian Treasury: Containing Contributions from Ministers and Members

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With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

BIBLE, Proverbs 11:9

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You see, slander takes two. It takes a slanderer, and a willing listener. In fact to be really damaging, it takes a chain of slanderers who eagerly repeat and embellish the first slanders. If no one listens to slander and no one repeats it, slander dies and the damage it does is nullified.

REBECCA HAMILTON, "Slander is Murder with Words", Patheos, October 18, 2013

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I am the god of slander

Mockery is my state of being

I give birth to the beasts

Who dwell in their chains

HELHEIM, "God of Slander"

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Slanderers are monsters, without morals. They're cannibals, who eat their relatives' cold, dead bodies.

ALMAZBEK ATAMBAYEV, "Seven moments from the life of Almazbek Atambayev", Open Democracy, April 11, 2017

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'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

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