Quotes About Slanderer

#1. Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Karl Rove

#2. Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

Muhammad Ali

#3. To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

Tryon Edwards

#4. The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Tryon Edwards

#5. The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

Andrew Jackson

#6. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#7. Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.

Kabir

#8. So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

Socrates

#10. In my experience," the Gray Man said, "the badasses are the most scared. I just avoid being inappropriately frightened.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. It is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.

Alan W. Watts

#12. Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#13. Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Ovid

#14. Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

Shania Twain

#16. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.

Lera Auerbach

#17. There seemed to be some...irregularity in your coming here," the priest said delicately. Thus did he characterize her arrival, bruised and battered, in the arms of her betrothed rather than under the decorous escort of her family.

Josie Litton

#18. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles