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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
— Herodotus
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
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
Something of calumny always sticks.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
— William Shakespeare
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
— Robert Emmet
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
— Seneca The Younger
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
— Ben Jonson
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
— Pope Francis
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
— Diane De Poitiers
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
— Francis Bacon
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.
— Margaret Chase Smith
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
— Diogenes
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
— Alexander Pope
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
— Mary Stewart
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
— George Washington
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
— Thomas Paine
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
— Tacitus
