Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old slander quotes, slander sayings, and slander proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.Aeschylus
0
It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.Mark Twain
0
Slander meets no regard from noble minds; only the base believe what the base only utter.John Bellers
0
Slander is the tool of cowards. Vanna Bonta
0
Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs.Mozambican Proverb
0
Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.William Shakespeare
0
Slander piles itself before the door of a widow.Chinese Proverb
0
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one, it flies as well as creeps.Douglas William Jerrold
0
The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.Alexandre Dumas
1
Slander is an admission that you don't have anything else worthwhile to say. It is a clear indication of both your personal emotional bankruptcy and the paucity of whatever arguments you are advancing.Rebecca Hamilton
0
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.Abraham Lincoln
0
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.Hosea Ballou
0
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.Josh Billings
0
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.Washington Gladden
0
Slander is more deadly than weapons; weapons wound from close range, slander hurts from a distance.Hebrew Proverb
0
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.Samuel Johnson
0
Slander is a secret propensity of the mind to think ill of men, and afterwards to utter such sentiments in scandalous expressions.Theophrastus
0
Slanders issuing from red and beautiful lips, are like foul and ugly spiders crawling from the blushing heart of a rose.George Denison Prentice
0
Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.Muhammad Ali
0
Slander is a most serious evil; it implies two who do wrong, and one who is doubly wronged.Herod the Great
0
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.Washington Irving
0
Slander cannot destroy an honest man, when the flood recedes the rock is there.Chinese Proverb
0
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. Charles Churchill
0
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. Bernard of Clairvaux
0
Slander slays three people: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.Hebrew Proverb
0
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.Socrates
0
Slander lives upon succession, for ever housed where it gets possession.William Shakespeare
0
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.Plautus
0
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
0
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Log in with Google 
Log in with Facebook 
