Slander Quotes - Page 7

• Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

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• As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lying, Firsts, Articles

  "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.

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• I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

  Ted Cruz

  Dog, Father, Commitment

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Russia, United States, Blame

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Lots of Americans, they do think that yes, Russian hackers are everywhere. Russian hackers are in every fridge, Russian hackers are in every iron and so on and so forth. But this is not true. Those are fake news and this is slander.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Thinking, Fake, Hackers

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander on social media and, in fact, in the last few months, as you mentioned, a number of bomb threats, almost 70, to dozens of Jewish community centers across the country.

  Jonathan Greenblatt

  Country, Hate, Community

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Thinking, Humanity, Compromise

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

  Winfield Scott

  Lying, Iron, Long

  Timothy D. Johnson, Winfield Scott (2015). “Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott”, p.71, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

  John Gay

  Hate, Character, Men

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.73

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• The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

  Mao Zedong

  Sight, Giving, Soldier

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• What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.

  John Adams

  Party, Army, Men

  John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Character

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

  Jamie Glazov

  Suicide, Islamic, Practice

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• Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling of brotherhood among these people. Indeed, they always resent it when I call them brother. To show how far their ungenerosity can carry them, I will state that I offered to let Prof. H--y publish my great theory as his own discovery; I even begged him to do it; I even proposed to print it myself as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Kindness, Discovery

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• What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Austerity, Vices

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• I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, Would Be, Internet

  "Walter Cronkite lays down his pen", www.today.com. August 17, 2004.

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• If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Pride, Proud

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.208, Catholic Way Publishing

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• All those who slight me to my face,
  Or do me any other evil,
  Even if they blame or slander me,
  May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

  Shantideva

  Compassion, Evil, Enlightenment

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

  Criss Jami

  Night, Media, Illusion

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Light, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, People, Bird

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.130

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• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brooklyn, Half, Praise

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.370, Univ of California Press

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