Ptahhotep Quotes

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

By evil report and by good report.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Gossip is poison.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

… poison tongues …

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.