John Green Quotes

Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

Slander is poison to the soul.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

… poison tongues …

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

Just as the sword can kill, so can the tongue.

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

Some people will always gossip.

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.

Normally, I never listen to the people who speak about me.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

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.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.