Ferdinand I Quotes

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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

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

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

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

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.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

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

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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.

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

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

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

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

I will not sit by and watch good people smeared.