Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Ben Jonson

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Diogenes

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Horace

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Eric Hoffer

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

David Kelley

Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,

Tony Leon

But an ordinary reading of his remarks on the occasion - as well as camera footage of the conference - clearly indicated he was making an accusation of sabotage. He is even shown clearly using the word 'sabotage'.

David Mamet

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Tracey Schmitt

Harry Reid's accusation that President Bush is playing politics with national security may earn him the title of hypocrite-in-chief.

Andrew Gowers

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

Alfred Adler

There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.

Kerry Sutton

Go back in any news archive and look at the men who have been freed from prison, look at the men that have been taken off death row. Mistakes happen. Bad directions are taken by district attorneys; police make mistakes. It happens all the time: False accusation is commonplace.

Michael Bradley

If the accusation is I'm friends with (Boone), then I'm guilty of that. But I'm guilty of that with a lot of legislators down there. If I had to find a sponsor for a bill that I didn't know or that I didn't like, I'd be hard pressed.

John Wilson

We all have a Judge Danforth in our lives, that voice of condemnation that calls us to confess the egregious. Sometimes the accusation is unfounded, not shaped by our actions, but by what the world thinks of us already.