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  • Calumny is only the noise of madmen. -- Diogenes
  • 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
  • I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. -- Margaret Chase Smith
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Calumny is the offspring of Envy. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself. -- Pope Francis
  • There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. -- Horace
  • Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies. -- Lajos Kossuth
  • It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. -- Maria W. Stewart
  • Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places. -- Ovid
  • Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. -- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
  • To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny -- George Washington
  • Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. -- Diane de Poitiers
  • Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. -- Tacitus
  • The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. -- Herodotus
  • 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
  • A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. -- William Hazlitt
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame? -- William Benton Clulow
  • It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. -- Maria W. Stewart
  • A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. -- Herodotus
  • The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Something of calumny always sticks. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Genius involves both envy and calumny. -- Alexander Pope
  • False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. -- Horace
  • Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent... -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. -- Plutarch
  • 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
  • There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 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
  • 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
  • It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
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