SLANDER QUOTES
quotations about slander
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To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
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
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
None are free from slander.
Slanderers are a species of creatures, so great a scandal to human nature, as scarce to deserve the name of men. They are, for the generality, a composition of the most detestable vices, price, envy, lying, hatred, uncharitableness, etc... And yet it is a lamentable truth that these wretches swarm in every town, and lurk in every village; and, actuated by these base principles, are ever busied in attacking the characters of mankind; none are too good or too great to escape the level of their envenomed dart; nor does the inefficacy of their malicious intentions in the least deter them from persevering in their villainy.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Slander cannot make the subjects of it either better or worse, it may represent us in a false light, or place a likeness of us in a bad one, but we are the same: not so the slanderer; for calumny always makes the calumniator worse, but the calumniated--never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
- 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"
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