Reputation Damage Quotes

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!'

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

Policy flip-flops debase the currency of United States credibility.

There's no negative to this except I might lose the [Democratic presidential] nomination to Bob Kerry .... Because he's single, nobody cares who he's screwing.