Top 162 Slander Quotes & Sayings

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

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Slander is poison to the soul.

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

The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

Opinion is not slander.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

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.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

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

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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.

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

There is no protection against slander.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

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.

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.