Slander Proverbs

Sayings about Slander

It is easier to get a chicken back in the egg than to undo a slander. ~ Chinese Proverb

Slander piles itself before the door of a widow. ~ Chinese Proverb

Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs. ~ Mozambican Proverb

Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Slander expires at a good woman's door. ~ Danish Proverb

Set a watch over thy mouth, and keep the door of thy lips, for a tale-bearer is worse than a thief. ~ Proverb

He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back. ~ Dutch Proverb

Slander is more deadly than weapons; weapons wound from close range, slander hurts from a distance. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Mockery is the flashing of slander. ~ Chinese Proverb

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there. ~ Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Slander

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. ~ Plato

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. ~ Sir William D'Avenant

Slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets possession. ~ William Shakespeare

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defense or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge. ~ Joseph Roux

There is no protection against slander. ~ Moliere

Slander is the balm of malignity. ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort

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

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail. ~ William Shakespeare

A generous confession disarms slander. ~ Thomas Fuller

Those who, without knowing us, think or speak evil of us, do no harm; it is not us they attack, but the phantom of their own imagination. ~ Jean de la Bruyere

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ~ George Bancroft

He who slings mud generally loses ground. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. ~ Charles Churchill

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of Time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ~ Immanuel Kant

Slander is a most serious evil; it implies two who do wrong, and one who is doubly wronged. ~ Herod the Great

Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. ~ Socrates

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. ~ Aeschylus

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure. ~ Washington Gladden

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you. ~ Alexandre Dumas pere

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. ~ Mark Twain

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. ~ Henry Fielding

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defence. ~ Samuel Johnson

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot. ~ William Shakespeare

Slanderers are at all events economical for they make a little scandal go a great way, and rarely open their mouths except at the expense of other people. ~ Paul Chatfield

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow, wounding both him that commits and him against whom it is committed. ~ Bernard Joseph Saurin

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears. ~ Joseph Hall

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. ~ Joseph Addison

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. ~ Samuel Johnson

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. ~ Oscar Wilde

Cut men's throats with whisperings. ~ Ben Jonson

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us. ~ Herman Boerhaave

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. ~ St. Bernard

If any one tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, do not make excuse about what is said of you, but answer: "He was ignorant or my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone." ~ Epictetus

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. ~ Jonathan Swift

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. ~ Isaac Barrow

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride. ~ William Shakespeare

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ~ Mary W. Stewart

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. ~ Sydney

Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision--the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. ~ Plautus

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