CALUMNY

Related Subjects: Deceit, Lies, Reputation, Scandal, Slander

1. Hurl your calumnies boldly, something is sure to stick.—BACON
   

2. As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

3. The upright man, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.—C. C. COLTON
   

4. Calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated—never.—C. C. COLTON
   

5. Opposition and calumny are often the brightest tribute that vice and folly can pay to virtue and wisdom.—RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
   

6. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is true, is equally guilty. The person traduced is doubly injured; by him who propagates, and by him who credits the slander.—HERODOTUS, History
   

7. False praise can please, and calumny affright
   None but the vicious and the hypocrite.—HORACE, Satires
   

8. Calumny differs from most other injuries in this dreadful circumstance: he who commits it can never repair it.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

9. I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavoured and taken pains to belie me. It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.—BEN JONSON, Explorata
   

10. If nobody took calumny in and gave it lodging, it would starve and
    die of itself.—ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON
    

11. He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or he has no more sense and understanding than a child.—MENANDER
    

12. I never listen to calumnies; because if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived; and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.—MONTESQUIEU
    

13. There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.—NAPOLEON
    

14. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.—WILLIAM PENN
    

15. Calumny and conjecture may injure innocency itself.—Proverb
    

16. When conscience is pure it triumphs o'er bitter malice, o'er dark calumny; but if there be in it one single stain, reproaches beat like hammers in the ears.—PUSHKIN
    

17. Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.—FRANCIS QUARLES
    

18. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
    Snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
    Get thee to a nunnery, go.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

19. My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,
    My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
    Will so your accusation overweigh,
    That you shall stifle in your own report,
    And smell of calumny.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

20. Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.—TACITUS, History
    

21. To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.—WASHINGTON, Moral Maxims