Slander Quotes

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. View quote
Henry Fielding
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true. View quote
Ben Jonson
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. View quote
Mark Twain
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. View quote
John Gay
Men of the eleventh! the enemy say we are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call on you to give the lie to that slander. Charge! View quote
Winfield Scott
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. (Anne Brontë)
If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. View quote
William Shakespeare
.... it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence. View quote
Mark Twain
Slander is worse than cannibalism. View quote
John Chrysostom
Such a businessman has never become rich whose mouth was full of slander and his heart full of envy of success of the others, who could with great skill reveal the mistakes of his competitor. However that one has never been and will never be poor who serves his customers with words of cordial kindness and whose eyes can see rather the positive than the negative features of the competitor so that he could use them. View quote
Tomáš Baťa
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I am growing fit, I hope, for a better world, of which light of the sun is but a shadow: for I doubt not but God's works here, are what comes nearest to his works there; and that a true relish of the beauties of nature is the most easy preparation and gentlest transition to an enjoyment of those of heaven; as on the contrary a true town life of hurry, confusion, noise, slander, and dissension, is a fort of apprenticeship to hell and its furies... The separation of my soul and body is what I could think of with less pain; for I sm very sure he that made it will take care of it, and in whatever state he pleases it shall be, that state must be right; but I cannot think without tears of beingseparated from my friends, when their condition is so douubtful, that they may want even such assistance as mine. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
John Bright
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. View quote
Henry Miller
I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in consonance with or opposed to current views. I would not mind in the least whether truth is, or is not, a blow to the glory of my country. If necessary, I shall bear in patience the ridicule and slander of friends and society for the sake of preaching truth. But still I shall seek truth, understand truth, and accept truth. This should be the firm resolve of a historian. (Jadunath Sarkar)
The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character. View quote
Joseph Heller
Slander was about liberals' methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism. View quote
Ann Coulter
The words of malicious slander should not be allowed to enter the ear. A defensive voice should not be allowed to come out of the mouth. The want to gravely injure people should not be allowed to exist in the heart. If this is accomplished, though there be people who cynically expose others, they would be without people who would align with them. View quote
Mozi
Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening! Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander. View quote
Tom Stoppard