Calumny Quotes

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Calumny is a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. It means an abusive attack on a person's character or good name. Our site contains huge collection of quotes on the topic Calumny . Please go through our collection.


Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais)
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais)
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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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? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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Praise her but for this her without- door form -- Which on my faith deserves high speech -- and straight The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands That calumny doth use -- O, I am out, That mercy does, for calumny will sear Virtue itself -- these shrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have said she's goodly, come between Ere you can say she's honest. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. (Quote by - Herodotus)
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I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. (Quote by - Herman Boerhaave)
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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. (Quote by - Robert Emmet)
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. (Quote by - Mary Stewart)
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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. (Quote by - Richard Le Gallienne)
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Something of calumny always sticks. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
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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. (Quote by - Nicolas Chamfort)
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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. (Quote by - Robert Emmet)
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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton )
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