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There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever
beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Felix Holt (introduction)
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I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Poet and the Rose
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 43), (Pope's translation)
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If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as
creeps.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--Slander
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Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 1)
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Cut
Men's throats with whisperings.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Sejanus (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Persa (act III, sc. 1), (Riley's translation)
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Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good
will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the
latter by the ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,
Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,
Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Pseudolus (I, 5, 12)
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'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words;
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
Author: Robert Pollok
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 725)
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. . . For slander lives upon succession,
For ever housed where it gets possession.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Baltzhazar at III, i)
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No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Pisanio at III, iv)
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And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
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God knows I loved my niece,
And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Antonio at V, i)
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Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at V, iii)
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I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Emilia at IV, ii)
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Sonnet LXX
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, i)
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If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at III, ii)
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Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Liberty (pt. IV, l. 609)
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Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
Author: Tryon Edwards
Source: None
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Author: Immanuel Kant
Source: None
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Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.
Author: Joseph Parker
Source: None
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I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
Author: John Gay
Source: None
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
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