(67 quotes found)
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves”
William Shakespeare
“Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice”
Bible
“Slander is worse than cannibalism”
Saint John Chrysostom
“Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there”
Chinese Proverbs
“The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error.”
Buddha
“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. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.”
Henry Miller
“The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at”
Jonathan Swift
“Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven”
Benjamin Franklin
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