Karen Civil Quotes

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

By evil report and by good report.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

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.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

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

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

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

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

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

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

I'm a great professional. What's been said about me going out a lot at night is a lie.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.