“ Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
“ We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
“ Backbite. To "speak of a man as you find him" when he can't find you. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ If men speak ill of you, so live that no one will believe their slanders. ”
- Christine Chubbuck- Copy
“ The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
“ No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be… ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
“ Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ”
- Eliza Farnham- Copy
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