Avril Lavigne Quotes

Slander strongly and some will stick.

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

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

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

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

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.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

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

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

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.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

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

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.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

Infamous Greek calumnies

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

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

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

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

As you have seen, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears.