Slander can be lived down by our manner of living; it is not lived down by words of indignation.

— Ellen G. White

I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves…

— Boerhave

If a good life does not silence, it will disarm calumny.

— Unknown

Who stabs my name would stab my person too, did not the hangman's axe lie in the way.

— Crown

Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound…

— F. Quarles

Calumniators have neither good hearts, nor good understandings.

— Bulwer