Quotes with slander

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  • Anne Brontë If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. IX
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Mark Twain It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gustave Flaubert Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Alice Walker People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Plautus Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Victor Hugo Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Fuller A generous confession disarms slander.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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