Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

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

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

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.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Rumors are spread by jealous people

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.