He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
John Bright
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
John Chrysostom
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton
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