Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

People have already dirtied my name too much.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.

I will not sit by and watch good people smeared.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

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

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

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

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

For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I'm not a drug addict, I don't smoke or drink and I'm most definitely not a lesbian.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

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

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

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

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.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Gossip is poison.