(72 quotes found)
“The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position.”
Chanakya
“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Forgetting your Dear Lord the stone of corruption is tied around your neck, and the load of slander is on your head”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.”
Ambrose Bierce
“What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?”
“With my mouth I speak slander, day and night. I spy on the houses of others - I am such a wretched low-life! Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved anger dwell in my body, like the outcasts who cremate the dead. I live as a wild hunter, O Creator!”
“Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.”
Bernard St.
“A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it”
Josh Billings
“We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
“Self-praise is half slander”
Proverb
