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.
— William Shakespeare
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I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
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.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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.
Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
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.
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.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
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.
True devotion must not get dispirited;
nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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.
The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
Something of calumny always sticks.
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies;
they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.