Libel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
-- Bill Moyers

#Mistake #Journalism #Libel
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.
-- Edward Coke

#Men #Made #Libel
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
-- Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

#Trust #Truth #Libel
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
-- Ian Hislop

#Lawyer #Given #Libel
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
-- Jean Giono

#Said #Libel
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
-- John Selden

#Ballads #Libel #Shows
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
-- Larry Kramer

#Gay #Telling The Truth #Libel
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Law #Enemy #Libel
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
-- Mark Russell

#Opponents #Politician #Libel

I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
You all say the same thing. When something bad happens, everyone tells you to forget about it. But, I don't think you can forget that easily. You may be able to pretend you've forgotten, but I don't think anyone can completely forget.