Calumny famous quotes

Genius involves both envy and calumny.
-- Alexander Pope

#Envy #Genius #Calumny

Calumnies are answered best with silence.
-- Ben Jonson

#Silence #Calumny

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#People #Coins #Calumny

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
-- Diogenes

#Noise #Calumny #Madmen

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Calumny

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
-- Horace

#Hypocrite #Praise #Calumny

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Benefits #Rogues #Calumny

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Humble #Calumny #Capacity

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Calumny

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
-- Maria W. Stewart

#Calumny #Harder

Something of calumny always sticks.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Sticks #Calumny

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Sticks #Calumny

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
-- Plautus

#Abuse #Looks #Calumny

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
-- Pope Francis

#Satan #Calumny

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
-- Robert Emmet

#Reputation #Accusation #Calumny

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

#Oil #Gossip #Calumny