Such a businessman has never become rich whose mouth was full of slander and his heart full of envy of success of the others, who could with great skill reveal the mistakes of his competitor. However that one has never been and will never be poor who serves his customers with words of cordial kindness and whose eyes can see rather the positive than the negative features of the competitor so that he could use them.
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
"Or he might say: 'Having abandoned slander, the recluse Gotama abstains from slander. He does not repeat elsewhere what he has heard here in order to divide others from the people here, nor does he repeat here what he has heard elsewhere in order to divide these from the people there. Thus he is a reconciler of those who are divided and a promoter of friendships. Rejoicing, delighting, and exulting in concord, he speaks only words that are conducive to concord.'
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
If on the web you search only for frivolous or sensational news (which are often false and slanderous), you will bring grist to the mill of those who maintain that the era of the web is by no means the “era of knowledge”.
If some speak ill of me, I will try to understand their reasons, but after my death I will certainly come to terms with it.
No form and no degree of alleged liberty can justify calumny or the publication of calumnious material.
I hate the man who builds his name Think slander can transplant the bays.
Slander is compared to an arrow, not to any other handy weapon, such as a sword, etc., because like an arrow it kills at a distance. It can be uttered in Rome and have its baneful effect in Syria.
Dens Theonina.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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.
For oh, 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies, That the greater the truth, the worse the libel.
'T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words,Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper.
For slander lives upon succession,Forever housed where it gets possession.
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
King: So haply slander-My soul is full of discord and dismay.
No might nor greatness in mortalityCan tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
One doth not knowHow much an ill word may empoison liking.
Slander'd to death by villains,Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
Done to death by slanderous tongues,Was the Hero that here lies.
I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,Have not devis'd this slander.
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here,—Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,Thy worth the greater.
If I can do itShe shall not long continue love to him.
With ridiculous and awkward action,Which, slanderer, he imitation calls.
Calumny will searVirtue itself;—these shrugs, these hums, and ha's.
The breathWhich is a mask without it.
Silence to man and prayer to God are the best cures for the evil of slander.
The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle. You should never remain in his presence; his intentions should not be allowed to have an effect on you.
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.
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth—a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.
There are * * * robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one—it flies as well as creeps.
Where it concerns himself,Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
CutMen's throats with whisperings.
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. * * * The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eatAn honest name.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel, whatever the intention may have been.
It is not the truth or falsehood that makes a libel, but the temper with which it is published.
It was the rule of Holt, Chief Justice, to make words actionable whenever they sound to the disreputation of the person of whom they were spoken; and this was also Hale's and Twieden's rule; and I think it a very good rule.
Libelling against a private man is a moral offence; but when it is against a government, it tends to the destruction of it.
Why are libels against individuals prosecuted? Because they have a tendency to provoke the party to whom they are sent to a breach of the peace.
His reputation is his property, and, if possible, more valuable than other property.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
He that filches from me my good name,And makes me poor indeed.