Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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.

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

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.

We will not hesitate to discredit you.

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

Infamous Greek calumnies

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

I will not sit by and watch good people smeared.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

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

Opinion is not slander.

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

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.