Philip Massinger Quotes

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

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.

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

The apparition of a person afflicting another is very insufficient proof of a witch, and that a good name, obtained by a good life, should not be lost by mere “spectral accusation.”

A lot of people want to discredit me.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

Nobody is allowed to make money by defaming me. I may forgive, but I'll never forget.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

[Theodore Roosevelt had the] cruel malevolence of a barbarian .... [he] uttered a lie as black and damnable, a calumny as foul and atrocious, as ever issued from a human throat.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

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

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.