Calumny Quotes

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

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

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

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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

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

Something of calumny always sticks.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.