Plautus Quotes

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.

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

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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