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  • Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

  • He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

    Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation
  • 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.
  • If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

    Character   Men   History  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.13
  • We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

    2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston
  • Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

    Secret   Tales   Thee  
  • Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

  • Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

    Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah
  • I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.

    Book   Home   Boys  
    H.P. Lovecraft (2011). “The Road to Madness”, p.84, Del Rey
  • He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

    Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
  • Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333
  • The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

    Writing   Faces   Privacy  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158
  • Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

    Pain   Loss   Filling Up  
  • Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

  • Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

    William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424
  • The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

    Heart   Mind   Criticism  
    Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.64, Penguin
  • Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

    Smart   People   Dumb  
    Interview with JD Jungle, www.lawcrossing.com.
  • All those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence, were nothing else but slander. And that's why we'll continue to suggest to everyone insisting that Russia was interfering in this or that way into domestic affairs of the United States, we will suggest them to read Mr. Putin's lips.

    Fake   Affair   Slander  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

    Truth   Self   People  
  • It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

    Men   Abuse   Praise  
  • 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
  • The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

    "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.
  • As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

    Lying   Firsts   Slander  
    "Paradise Lost: an Interview With Lana Del Rey". www.electronicbeats.net. June 19, 2013.
  • The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

    "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.
  • A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

    Heart   Tongue   Slander  
    Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.380
  • If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

    Tongue   Speak   Slander  
    Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.94, Diversion Books
  • Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

    Lying   Men   Done  
    1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.
  • What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.

    Party   Army   Men  
    John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”
  • To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

    Believe   Laughing   Soul  
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207
  • Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

    Water   Mind   Invisible  
    The Spectator no. 476, 5 Sept. 1712
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