Moliere Quotes

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

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.

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.

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.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

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.

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

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

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.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

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.

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

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.

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

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Done to death by slanderous tongue