Slander Quotes

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

Poor, Poverty, Common

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

Society, Down, Others

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert

History, Ignorance, Times

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

Society, Down, Living

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove

Personal, Read, Republican

Slander is worse than cannibalism.
John Chrysostom

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

Cannot, Poor, Fact

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