Saadi Quotes

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.

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

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

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.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

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

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

… poison tongues …

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

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

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.