quotations about slander
Lies and slander in vain try to shame us
Riots, protests, violence just makes us famous
TV interviews, free publicity
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TYPE O NEGATIVE
"We Hate Everyone"
Line up and call me names
Come spit in my face
It doesn't matter
I'm in a better place
Slander
TRASH TALK
"Slander"
It's Slander
You say it's not a sword
But with your pen you torture men
You'd crucify the Lord
And you don't have to read it
And you don't have to eat it
To buy it is to feed it
So why do we keep foolin' ourselves
MICHAEL JACKSON
"Tabloid Junkie"
Slanderers are at all events economical, for they make a little scandal go a great way.
HORACE SMITH
The Tin Trumpet; or, Heads and Tales for the Wise and Waggish
I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander.
MAHMOUD DARWISH
A River Dies of Thirst
A true believer never slanders.
AL-AHNAF
attributed, Day's Collacon
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown,
Imagine that they raise their own.
Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise,
Think slander can transplant the bays.
JOHN GAY
"The Poet and the Rose", Fables
'Tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world; kings, queens and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men ... is by their being misrepresented. Now, as by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to himself in the way of flattery, so by calling good evil, he is misrepresented to others in the way of slander and detraction.
ROBERT SOUTH
Twelve Sermons
I try so hard to state my case
Yet as I try to
Draw to you,
Incoherence rears its ugly head.
Resort to slander--
You drive me further away.
Breakdown of minuscule faith--
My wasted efforts!!
It's your indifference, not mine,
That puts me on a pedestal.
NAPALM DEATH
"Idiosyncratic"
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints? If the one, like an arrow shot in the dark, does nevertheless so much secret mischief, this, like the pestilence which rages at noonday, sweeps all before it, levelling without distinction the good and the bad: a thousand fall beside it, and ten thousand at its right hand: they fall, so rent and torn in this tender part of them, so unmercifully butchered, as sometimes never to recover either the wounds or the anguish of heart which they have occasioned.
LAURENCE STERNE
The Works of Laurence Sterne
Honey you're so quick to skip
From praise to slander
Devil or angel I'm not one or the other
And I'm sorry if I, if I disappoint you, so.
LOU DOILLON
"Devil or Angel"
Well, you can knock me down
Step in my face
Slander my name
All over the place
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes
CARL PERKINS
"Blue Suede Shoes"
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Specimens of Jerrold's Wit
If one conceals his hatred within himself he becomes a malignant flatterer; but if he gives expression to it in slander, abuse and base detraction, then as a genuine fool he brings upon himself the greatest injury.
ROBERT A. MOREY
A Bible Handbook on Slander and Gossip
Slander gains no love.
MUKLA
attributed, Day's Collacon
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
HENRY FIELDING
The Temple Beau
'Twas Slander filled her mouth with lying words,
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
ROBERT POLLOK
The Course of Time