Calumny Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Calumny


Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose. Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. Beaumarchais—Barbier de Seville. Act III. 13.	1
Nihil est autem tam volucre, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur. Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. Cicero—Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio. XXIII.	2
Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Diogenes.	3
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. Isaac D’Israeli—Amenities of Literature. The First Jesuits in England.	4
Dens Theonina. Like Theon (i.e. a calumniating disposition). Horace—Epistles. Bk. I. 18. 82.	5
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. Napoleon I.	6
Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 38.	7
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 138.	8
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 146.	9
Calumny will sear Virtue itself;—these shrugs, these hums, and ha’s. Winter’s Tale. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 73.	10