Calumny Quotes

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Diogenes

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

George Washington

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.

Bible

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.

William Hazlitt

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

Seneca

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Edgar Watson Howe

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

Aesop

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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.

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil of your duplicity?Your proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, gossips, polemics, planted intrigues, lies, calumny, misjudgement, and all other forms of smear campaign, may deceive gullible hearts but you cannot destroy the unparalleled truth which is in the hands of your target victim. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

Michael Bassey Johnson

In the soul of all liars, the unparalleled truth is a sickness. The unparalleled truth shall come out but first the liars will stretch their calumny. His past crimes shall haunt his heart. His evil ways shall torment his soul. The web of lies will fill up his brain cells. His secrets however hidden shall eventually come out. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my K.H. Trilogy

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Michael Bassey Johnson

He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands. He was willing to work in a ditch if others might fall therein. What mean things men will do to wreak revenge on the godly. They hunt for good men as if they were brute beasts - they that will not give them the fair chase afforded to the hare or the fox, but must secretly entrap them because they can neither run them down nor shoot them down. Our enemies will not meet us to the face for they fear us as much as they pretend to despise us. But let us look on to the end of the scene. The verse says he has fallen into the ditch that he has made. Ah, there he is. Let us laugh at his disappointment. Lo, he is himself the beast. He has hunted his own soul. The chase has brought him a goodly victim. So should it ever be.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Michael Bassey Johnson

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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 abov

Jacques Charles

People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim's integrity. Question the motive of people who erroneously, offensively, defensively, intrusively, abusively and intentionally brand you as a threat, a risk or a danger to life or security. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and calumny spread, feeding disinformations like daily toxic bread, feeding fallaciousness to the unread. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Michael Bassey Johnson