Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

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

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

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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

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.

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.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

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

Infamous Greek calumnies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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