Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

False perceptions are being created about me without an iota of proof.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

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

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.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

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.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

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

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

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

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

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

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

My Lord, it is difficult to reply in a restrained fashion. My learned friend must not use words such as 'Communist' lightly, when he refers to Kantor. Kantor is not a Communist. My learned friend has used the tactics of McCarthyism in an endeavor to smear him. I think, with respect, my learned friend is allowing himself to run away with facts that are not there.

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

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I'm not a drug addict, I don't smoke or drink and I'm most definitely not a lesbian.

Any rumor you can think of, I've been a part of it.