Calumnies Quotes

#1. Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Ben Jonson

#2. Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Lajos Kossuth

#3. A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

James Anthony Froude

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

Herman Boerhaave

#5. Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Francis Bacon

#6. The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Jane Porter

#7. Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

John Of Kronstadt

#8. No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Aurangzeb

#9. It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

#10. Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

Thurgood Marshall

#11. The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

George R R Martin

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

Baron De Montesquieu

#13. There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Horace

#14. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.

Julie Kagawa

#17. A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Jon Hurwitz

#18. Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Quintilian

#19. MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was. He recalled the Spartan custom of inebriating slaves that young men should see how contemptible was drunkenness. Nowadays we leave it to our leshishlashors.

Jamie O'Neill

#20. I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James C. Humes

#21. Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Bashar Al-Assad

#22. I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Kurt Cobain

#23. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Gary Keller

#24. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.

Genevieve Dewey

#25. Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

Greg Mortenson

#26. I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.

William Monahan