“ A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news. ”
- Beryl Pfizer- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ”
- Betty Friedan- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 230
“ A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 715
“ One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 936
“ Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. ”
- St. Bernard- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A man calumniated is doubly injured — first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 939
“ Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. ”
- Pierre Beaumarchais- Copy
- 273
“ To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.2K
“ And there's a lust in man no charm can tameOf loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,While virtuous actions are but borne to die. ”
- Juvenal- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The mind, conscious of innocence, despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. ”
- Ovid- Copy
- 2.4K
“ To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
- 1.4K
“ He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 640
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
- 4K
“ Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ”
- Timothy Dwight- Copy
- 177
“ Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones — let them read the prayers. ”
- David Garrick- Copy
- 2.7K
“ O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down! ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
- 3.3K
“ That's slander, and we all know that's against one of the Ten Commandments — bearing false witness. ”
- Liz Smith- Copy
- 269
“ You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. ”
- Fritz Mondale- Copy
- 3.5K
“ An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you. - Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to him. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.8K
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