Calumny Quotations

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Something of calumny always sticks.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.