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Calumny Quotes

1.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
Maria W. Stewart

Authors on Calumny Quotes: Stanisław I Leszczyński Horace Ben Jonson Marcus Tullius Cicero Oliver Goldsmith Diogenes Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Lajos Kossuth Alexander Pope Maria W. Stewart Pierre Beaumarchais Mahatma Gandhi William Shakespeare George R. R. Martin Plautus Ovid Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Pope Francis Francis Bacon
2.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Ben Jonson

3.
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
Pope Francis

4.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Mahatma Gandhi

5.
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Alexander Pope

6.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes

7.
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
Plautus

8.
Nothing is so swift as calumny,
nothing is more easily propagated,
nothing more readily credited,
nothing more widely circulated.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

9.
Something of calumny always sticks.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

10.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Horace

11.
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Lajos Kossuth

12.
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
Ovid

13.
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
Oliver Goldsmith

14.
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais

15.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

16.
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

17.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

18.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
Francis Bacon

19.
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.
Stanisław I Leszczyński

20.
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
George R. R. Martin