Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven."
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Slander
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aeschylus
Playwright
"The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"There is no protection against slander."
Plato
Philosopher
"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word."
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"How much an ill word may empoison liking!"
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession."
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"Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places."
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"Slander is the solace of malignity."
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"A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue."
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"If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander."
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"Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders."
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"As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them."
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"If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues."
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"A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore"
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"There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail."
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"On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride."
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"Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill."
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"Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest."
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"The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it."
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"Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer."
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