The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
Slander Quotes
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
If you can forgive the man who wronged you, the neighbor who slandered you and help the poor about you, you need not be particular about making any professions of righteousness.
I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another’s fame.
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. (2 Corinthians 12:20)
Defamation is becoming a necessity of life; inasmuch as a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant.
Tale-bearers are just as bad as the tale-makers.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense.
