Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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

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?

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

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.

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.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

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

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

A lot of people want to discredit me.

I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.

There's been a lot of lies written about me.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

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.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

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