“ You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. ”
- Fritz Mondale- Copy
- 3K
“ Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. ”
- Pierre Beaumarchais- Copy
- 286
“ That's slander, and we all know that's against one of the Ten Commandments — bearing false witness. ”
- Liz Smith- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to him. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.5K
“ This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 1.5K
“ This is simply more of the same smears and sleaze against a decorated Vietnam veteran from more of the same serial liars who disgraced themselves in 2004. It's too bad the truth doesn't matter to the right wing when there's a chance to fund-raise based on outright falsehood and slander. ”
- David Wade- Copy
- 3.2K
“ But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands. ”
- Joseph Parker- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
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“ Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. ”
- Socrates- Copy
- 3K
“ I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 897
“ As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2.5K
“ As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Backbite. To "speak of a man as you find him" when he can't find you. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A man calumniated is doubly injured — first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Slander soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time. ”
- P.K. Shaw- Copy
- 148
“ I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ”
- John Bright- Copy
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