I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Slander is the tool of cowards.
Gossip is hardly uplifting.
Rumors are spread by jealous people
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.
You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better.
Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.
