Robert South Quotes

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

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

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Infamous Greek calumnies

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.