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Slander: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny— M. M. iii. 2

The whitest virtue strikes. For haply, slander, Whose whisper o'er the earth's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name, And hit the woundless air,— H. iv. 1

One doth not know, How much an ill word may empoison liking. M.A. iii. 1 I see, the jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty: and though gold 'bides still, That others touch, yet often touching will Wear gold: and no man, that hath a name, But falsehood and corruption doth it shame,— C. E. ii. 1.

"Tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting wind, and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.— Cym. iii. 4.

Many worthy and chaste dames even thus (all guiltless) meet reproach.— O. iv. 1.

Calumny will sear virtue itself.— W.T. ii. 1.

I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devis'd this slander.— O. iv. 2.

For he The sacred honour of himself, his queen's, His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander, Whose sting is sharper than the sword's.— W.T. ii. 3.

Abus'd by some most villanous knave ! Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow: O, heaven, that such companions thoud'st unfold; And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascal naked through the world!— O. iv. 2.

So thou be good, slander doth but approve. Poems If thou dost slander her, and torture me, Never pray more: abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate: Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amaz'd, For nothing canst thou to damnation add, Greater than that.— 0. iii. 3.

A slave, whose gall coins slanders like a mint.— T. C. i. 3

Slanderers

That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops?— M.A. v. 1

Smiling rickthanks and base newsmongers.— H. IV. PT. 1. iii. 2.