70 Smear Quotes
Following is our list of smear quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about .
Famous Smear Quotes
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. — Benjamin Franklin
You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast. — Howard Finster
Stroke the dog and he will mark you with his dirty paws. — Albanian Proverbs
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. — George Soros
Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in. — Marvin J. Ashton
He who slings mud generally loses ground. — Adlai E. Stevenson
When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top! — John Hagee
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] — Ovid
If you threw a stone into a gutter, it would only spurt filth in your face. — R.K. Narayan
Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it — J. R. D. Tata
Short Smear Quotes
- In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. — Ann Voskamp
- There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news. — Ricky Williams
- A noble cause does not need to relentlessly smear its critics. — David O. Sacks
- If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness. — Aberjhani
- I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. — Charles Bukowski
- The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work. — Mark Shields
- Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought. — Margaret Chase Smith
- The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. — Thomas Harris
- He looks up through blood smeared lips. — Harry Carpenter
- I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! — Brooke Burns
Smear Campaign Quotes
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. — Paul Ryan
They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change. — Todd Harris
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. — Marianne Williamson
These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign. — Rand Paul
To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign. — Justin Amash
People Writing About Smear
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Benjamin Franklin |
1399 | 22156 |
 Howard Finster |
9 | 70 |
 Albanian Proverbs |
109 | 5 |
 George Soros |
194 | 2013 |
 Marvin J. Ashton |
102 | 603 |
 Adlai E. Stevenson |
81 | 874 |
More Smear Quotes
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith
Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used to brand as a bigot, like you guys, anyone who brings criticism against Jews. We use it against hate-mongers. — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
I don’t think you have a right not to be offended. You have a right not to be physically attacked. I suppose under civil law you have a right not to be slandered and smeared and libelled. I mean, the offence is an entirely subjective thing. You could say something completely innocuous and a person will interpret it as offensive. So no, you don’t have a right not to be offended. — Konstantin Kisin
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. — Ann Hood
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! — LeRoy Neiman
Ukraine has smeared peace advocates, outlawed peace talks, urged preemptive strikes by the West, and insists on retaking Crimea at risk of nuclear war. It does not deserve unqualified, unconditional, and unlimited US support. — David O. Sacks
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing. — James Elkins
She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden. — Don King
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? — Betty Ford
Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us. — Gerry Spence
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. — Boris Yeltsin
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue. — Buddha
There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same. — Tom Robbins
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. — Amy Bloom
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on. — Wayne Thiebaud
The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. — Marge Piercy
Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley. — Jeremy Clarkson
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. — Hedy Lamarr
Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it. — Keith Ellison
One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter. — Marc Chagall
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra
I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives. — Wayne Dyer
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. — James Richardson
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear. — Jeff Greenfield
I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement. — Edward Snowden
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste. — Ruggiero Ricci
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly. — Sara Maitland
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. — Karl Rove
[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard Dean, the "Dean Scream." Jesse Jackson, another kind of PR smear campaign.Meanwhile, the party keeps marching to the right and becomes more corporatist and elitist and imperialist. — Jill Stein
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding. — Karel Capek
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. — Carolyn Kizer
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