William Cowper Quotes

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

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.

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

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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

Nobody likes to feel like they are being torn apart behind their back.

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

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Slander is poison to the soul.

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.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

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

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.