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Calumny Quotes
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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)
Calumny is only the noise of madmen. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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)
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)
Something of calumny always sticks. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau- Despreaux)
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 - Sebastien- Roch- Nicolas de Chamfort)
Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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)