Close thine ear against him that opens his mouth against another. If thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound him. If thou receive them, they flee forward and wound thee.
Quarles
Refusing to entertain gossip protects both the slanderer and the listener.
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The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; and he who gives credit to the calumny before he knows it is tr…
— Herodotus
Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it a lodging.
— Leighton
As there are to be found in the service of envy men of every diversity of temper and degree of understanding, calumny is…
— Samuel Johnson
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like hi…
— Charles Caleb Colton
I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves…
— Boerhave
. Winston Churchill was attending an official ceremony. Several rows behind him two gentlemen began whispering, “That’s …
— RHatcher
