Calumny Quotes

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This collection holds 25 calumny quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Diogenes and Alexander Pope.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Something of calumny always sticks.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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.

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 more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

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