Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Quotes , Source: Barbier de Seville (act III, 13)
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Quotes , Source: Barbier de Seville (act III, 13)
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil
facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXIII)
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A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of
calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity.
This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Isaac D'Israeli
Quotes , Source: Amenities of Literature--The First Jesuits in England
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Winter's Tale (Leontes at II, i)
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