Calumny Quotes

Be thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Shakespeare.

Back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes.

Shakespeare.

When conscience is pure it triumphs o’er bitter malice, o’er dark calumny; but if there be in it one single stain, reproaches beat like hammers in the ears.

Alexander Pushkin.

Opposition and calumny are often the brightest tribute that vice and folly can pay to virtue and wisdom.

Ruth erford B. Hayes.

Who stabs my name world stab my person too, did not the hangman’s axe lie in the way.

Crown.

To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Cecil.

The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is true, is equally guilty. The person traduced is doubly injured; by him who propagates, and by him who credits the slander.

Herodotus.

Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you art hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

Tacitus.

Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.

Quarles.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Napoleon.

Those who ought to be most secure against calumny, are generally those who least escape it.

Stanislaus.

I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

Borehaave.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverse deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Colton.

Never chase a lie; if you let it alone, it will soon run itself to death. You can work out a good character faster than calumny can destroy it.

E. Nott.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me. It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Ben Jonson.

I never listen to calumnies; because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived; and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Montesquieu.

Calumny is like the wasp that worries you, which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Chamfort.

To persevere in one’s duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Washington.