quotations about slander
A slanderer is like a hornet: if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, you better not strike at it.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Murder, lies and slanders, 'cause they want to rule
Madmen and fools, they left a sea of running blood
RUNNING WILD
"Running Blood"
A season of slander is a sure sign that you are up for a promotion.
JENNIFER LECLAIRE
"Spirit of Slander Is Raging Against Believers in This Season", Charisma News, February 26, 2016
For slander lives upon succession,
Forever housed where it gets possession.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Comedy of Errors
If men speak ill of you, so live that no one will believe their slanders.
CHRYSIPPUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Slanders issuing from red and beautiful lips, are like foul and ugly spiders crawling from the blushing heart of a rose.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE
Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs
God of slander
I choose myself above all
Even though pain is my fortune
The poison that hits my body
Won't make me change my ways
In the end of day I'll lead my children by fire and ice
The world falls apart chaos among the gods
Death to us all
HELHEIM
"God of Slander"
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
SOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,
From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line,
And Muse apostate (infamy to song!)
Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
JAMES BEATTIE
The Judgment of Paris
Slander is the solace of malignity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry IV
Slander cannot make the subjects of it either better or worse, it may represent us in a false light, or place a likeness of us in a bad one, but we are the same: not so the slanderer; for calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated--never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
There is no cure against a slanderer's bite.
DANISH PROVERB
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When the tongue of slander stings thee, let this be thy comfort--they are not the worst fruits on which the wasps alight.
GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER
Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects: A Dictionary of Quotations and Selected Passages from the Best Writers, Ancient and Modern
Slander is a knife with no handle. It is murder with words, and it does wound the person who is slandered. But it cuts the slanderer himself even more deeply.
REBECCA HAMILTON
"Slander is Murder with Words", Patheos, October 18, 2013
Some people are much too smart
They know everything before it starts
Eating wisdom with the pail
No wonder when it sticks
In your darkest hour
I will sing this song for you
Cry and tell and slander
Yell and grumble well
So loud for Heaven's sake
HELLOWEEN
"Pink Bubbles Go Ape"
Centuries of slander
Masked with opium slumbers
Aimed to control our essence
To breed and keep their hold with fear
DAKRUA
"Divine Masquerade"
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.
JAMES THOMSON
Liberty
He that utters slander is a fool too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavours to cloud, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away.
ROBERT A. MOREY
A Bible Handbook on Slander and Gossip