Slander Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old slander quotes, slander sayings, and slander proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.  Jean Baptiste Massillon
Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. Robert Pollok
Slander expires at a good woman's door. Danish Proverb
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.  Vanna Bonta
Slander is a knife with no handle. It is murder with words, and it does wound the person who is slandered. But it cuts the slanderer himself even more deeply. Rebecca Hamilton
All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. Sir W. Davenant
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. Henry Fielding
Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper. Ptahhotep
The best armor against slander ishaving an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material. Mehmet Murat ildan
Slander is a high level of character assassination. Ryan Lestrange
Slander is the solace of malignity. Joseph Joubert
He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back. Dutch Proverb
Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way. Alexandre Dumas
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. Isaac Barrow
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. George Washington
Slander soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. Confucius
Slander is worse than cannibalism. John Chrysostom
A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor. Rachel Donelson Jackson
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. Napoleon Bonaparte
When the tongue of slander stings thee, let this be thy comfort, they are not the worst fruits on which the wasps alight. Gottfried August Bürger