Calumny Quotes - Page 2

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Humble, Capacity

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.22

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

  George Washington

  Not Giving Up, Calumny Is, Answers

  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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• Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Flesh, Reputation

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.211

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Calumny Is, Gullibility, Knows

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

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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, Calumny Is

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

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• Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Arrows, Mountain

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.459

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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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• There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

  Horace

  Calumny Is, Innocence, Loses

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• The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Moving, Eye, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.457

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• A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Attention

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Calm, Misfortunes Of Others

  Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Cumberland (1817*). “Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night. By Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-royal Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane ... with the Life of the Author, and a Critique, by R. Cumberland, Esq”, p.37

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• False praise can please, and calumny affright
  None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

  Horace

  Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

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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

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  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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• Something of calumny always sticks.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Sticks

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• Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  Diogenes

  Calumny Is, Noise, Madmen

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• What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Philosophy, Soul

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• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

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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

  Calumny Is, Worry, Trying

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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, Calumny Is

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

  Maria W. Stewart

  Calumny Is, Harder

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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

  Calumny Is, Benefits, Rogues

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• The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

  Jane Porter

  Heart, Credit, Crime

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.2

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• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  Aristotle

  War, Men, Light

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• True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fighting, Pride, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 27, 2016

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• I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, Hate, Thinking

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