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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself." (Rice, Anne - Writers and Writing)

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Browse Quotations about Slander

A generous confession disarms slander.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
Slander expires at a good woman's door.


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