Quotes with calumny

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

  Herodotus
  Greek historian (484 - 425)
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• Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  Diogenes of Sinope
  Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet (1792 - 1822)
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• It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

  Mary Stewart
   
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• No might nor greatness in mortality
  Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny.

  Measure for Measure III, 2

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• back-wounding
• immediately
• mysterious
• sufficient
• additional
• credulity

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