A Quote by David O. McKay

Slander is poison to the soul.

David O. McKay

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Poison Slander Soul

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David O. McKay
American - Priest
September 8, 1873 - January 18, 1970

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Rumour, gossip, slander - single drops of poison can pollute an entire system.

Bettany Hughes

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Plautus

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Blaise Pascal

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Harmeet Singh

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

William Shakespeare

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.

Maximus the Confessor

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.

Lukas Forchhammer

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

Francis Quarles

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.