John Chrysostom Quotes

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

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

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

Slander is poison to the soul.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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

I will not sit by and watch good people smeared.

Opinion is not slander.

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

So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

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

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

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

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

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

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.