Calumny Is Quotes

• Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

  Thomas Paine

  Trying, Vices, Alive

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Worry, Trying, Return

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• Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  Diogenes

  Noise, Calumny, Madmen

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• There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Jealousy, Mean, Thinking

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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

  Herodotus

  Believe, Men, Firsts

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Ice, Snow, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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

  Herman Boerhaave

  Blow, Thinking, Sparks

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• There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

  Horace

  Innocence, Calumny, Loses

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• No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Knowledge, Anorexia

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Sticks, Calumny

  "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Calumny

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

  Maria W. Stewart

  Calumny, Harder

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Gullibility, Knows, Credulity

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Hate, Real

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• 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.

  Jacques Charles

  Airplane, Perfect, Flying

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• The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Independent, Army

  "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.

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

  George Washington

  Not Giving Up, Answers, Persevere

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414

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• 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.

  Robert Emmet

  Reputation, Accusation, Should

  Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272

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

  Tacitus

  Hurt, Giving, Appearance

  Cornelius Tacitus (1830). “Tacitus”, p.313

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• 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.

  Robert Emmet

  Heart, Thinking, Understanding

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• I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

  Ben Jonson

  Watches, Action, Calumny

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1855). “The Works of Ben Jonson: With a Biographical Memoir”, p.867

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Insult, Insulted

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.

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• He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Pain, Hate

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 40

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• His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Benefits, Rogues, Calumny

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