David Brooks Quotes

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

People trash talk me.

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.

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

Insults are the business of the court.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

If any person has sung or composed against another person a SONG (carmen) such as was causing slander or insult.... he shall be clubbed to death.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

I've had to deal with terrible things being said about me.

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

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

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

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.

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.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

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.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.