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  • The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

    "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.
  • Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

    "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.
  • 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.

    Calumny Is   Ice   Snow  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920
  • Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  • There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

    Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
  • Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

  • It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

  • Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

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

  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

    Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”
  • It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

    "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.
  • A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

  • Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

  • 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, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA
  • There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

  • The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

    Happiness   Hate   Real  
  • Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

    Cornelius Tacitus (1830). “Tacitus”, p.313
  • I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

    Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1855). “The Works of Ben Jonson: With a Biographical Memoir”, p.867
  • Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

  • Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

    Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
  • 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.

    Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272
  • Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

    Party   Calumny Is   Two  
  • To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414
  • Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

  • Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

    Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield
  • I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

  • He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

    Death   Pain   Hate  
    'Adonais' (1821) st. 40
  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
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