Vicious Rumors Quotes

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

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

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

The politics of personal smear is degrading the dignity of public office

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.