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Slander: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

There are *** robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.— GEORGE ELIOT — Felix Holt.

Introduction. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.— GAY — The Poet and the Rose.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 43.

Pope's trans.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged oneit flies as well as creeps.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — Specimens of

Jerrold's Wit. Slander. Cut Men's throats with whisperings.— BEN JONSON — Sejanus. Act I. Sc. 1.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.— BEN JONSON — Catiline. Act III. Sc. 1.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. *** The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.— PLAUTUS — Persa. Act III. Sc. 1.

Riley's trans. 'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.— POLLOK — Course of Time. Bk. VIII. L. 725.

Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 3.

For slander lives upon succession, Forever housed where it gets possession. S.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 105.

I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 170.

If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise, She shall not long continue love to him.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 46.

I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised'd this slander.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 130.

One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 85.

Slander'd to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 88.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater.— Shakespeare — Sonnet LXX.

'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 35.

Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. C.— THOMSON — Liberty. Pt. IV. L. 609.