Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

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

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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

… poison tongues …

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Slander is poison to the soul.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

Gossip is poison.

Just as the sword can kill, so can the tongue.

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

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

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.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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.

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

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.