Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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.

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

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

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.

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

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.

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.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

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.

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.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

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

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

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Slander is poison to the soul.