quotations about slander
Slanderous words are irretrievable, especially on social media: We cannot call back the arrow we've shot into the air, the water under the bridge, or the spoken word.
LOREN HARDIN
"Straight Paths: Guard each man's dignity"
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Some Mistakes of Moses
Slander is a high level of character assassination.
RYAN LESTRANGE
"5 Keys to Surviving Lies and Evil Attacks", Charisma News, May 14, 2016
In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the endorsers.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
attributed, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay
Slanderers are like flies, that leap over all a man's good parts to light only upon his sores.
TILLOTSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
In the drop of venom which distils from the sting of the smallest insect, or the spikes of the nettle-leaf, there is concentrated the quintessence of a poison so subtle that the microscope cannot distinguish it, and yet so virulent that it can inflame the blood, irritate the whole constitution and convert day into night into restless misery; so it is with the words of the slanderer.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Sermons Preached at Brighton
I never found a slanderer who dared to meet face to face the person whom he abused and vilified.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things
Slander expires at a good woman's door.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to others to conceal it.
WILLIAM PENN
"Reflections and Maxims", A Collection of the Works of William Penn
Slander is a secret propensity of the mind to think ill of men, and afterwards to utter such sentiments in scandalous expressions.
THEOPHRASTUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
O Slander dread! miasma of a breath!
How dost thou murder snowy innocence!
How like a serpent hid'st thou mid fair flowers,
To dark, and strike, when beauty walks alone!
Accursèd worm! coiled round the heart of sin,
And with envenomed fang the poison pours
Quick through the tender tissue virtue wears!
Where lies thy nest? where can thy brood be found?
Thou spotted progeny of ugly Hate!--
Biting with the barb of gall the careless foot,
That, all unconscious, treads too near thy lair,
And rouses thy vindictive nature up,
To fierce resentment and malevolence!
Assassin--cruel--cowardly--and vile!
In secret armed, and fatal in thy blow!
Dipping thy dagger in the deadliest bane,
To strike, in masking dark, thy victim down!
C. B. LANGSTON
"To Slander"
La la la la la la let me go
I don't need to know
Where the slander goes
Na na na na na you're never there
When you're unaware
311
"Forever Now"
Dismantle the ground they stand on
Give power a name
You've traveled the path of slander
Now bury the shame
DEMON HUNTER
"Follow the Wolves"
He is little short of a hero, who perseveres in thinking well of a friend who has become a butt for slander.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
ST. BERNARD
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Slander soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
They that slander the dead are like envious dogs that bark and bite at bones.
ZENO
attributed, Day's Collacon
A slanderer is like a hornet: if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, you better not strike at it.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon