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  • A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

    Art   Book   Character  
    Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

    William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”
  • As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

  • Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

    Men   Feminism   Ancient  
    "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.
  • More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

    Ballads   Libel   Shows  
    John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80
  • Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

    Men   Hands   Names  
  • If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

  • If he says that, if he wins, he's going to, you know, dismantle the libel laws and come after the newspapers, I feel like we should take him at his word. This is the same man who has been writing letters to people who he's, you know, bared a grudge against for 20 years. So if Donald Trump says that, I don't know why you wouldn't want to believe him.

    "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.
  • People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the [Hillary] Clinton machine and the New York Times and other media outlets, as part of a concerted, coordinated and vicious attack.

    New York   Night   Media  
    Source: time.com
  • Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

    Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor
  • The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

    Source: www.wbur.org
  • An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

    Lying   Law   Degrees  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics
  • He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

    Names   Reputation   Poor  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155
  • Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

    Truth   Honesty   Libel  
    Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

    Law   Enemy   Libel  
  • Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

    Food   Names   Soup  
    Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation
  • I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

    Lying   Lovely   Suing  
    Evelyn Waugh (1992). “The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  • If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black
  • A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

    Men   Satire   Libel  
  • Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

    Women   Heart   Libel  
    Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division
  • Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

    Titles   Wealth   Libel  
    1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.
  • It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

    Risk   Stories   Action  
    James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
  • I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

    Land   Looks   Calling  
    Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.132, Penguin
  • Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you. You can say a lot of things. You can write books about him, damning him. So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

    Lying   Book   Writing  
  • Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

    Stars   Power   Greatness  
    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage
  • To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

    Spiritual   Sex   Heart  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”
  • When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

    Source: saharareporters.com
  • ...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank.

    Dark   Leaving   Age  
  • The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

    Taste   Comedy   Dignity  
    1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.
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