Calumny Quotes

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Something of calumny always sticks.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny