Massinger.    

	The low desire, the base design
	That makes another’s virtues less.

Longfellow.    

	Detraction’s a bold monster, and fears not
	To wound the fame of princes, if it find
	But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Massinger.    

	A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
	At every word a reputation dies.

Pope.    

	Mankind praise against their will,
	And mix as much detraction as they can.

Dr. Young.    

	’Tis not the wholesome sharp morality,
	Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
	That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
	But the sinister application
	Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
	Interpreter, who will distort and strain
	The general scope and purpose of an author
	To his particular and private spleen.

Ben Jonson.