libel quotes

And there was that wholesale libel on aYale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott While Rome Burns (1934),'Our Mrs Parker'.

There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler† I shall not hesitate to issue writs for libel and slander if scandalous allegations are made or repeated outside the House.

-John Dennis Profumo
  House of Commons, Mar.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Declaration of Rights, article 27.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

-James Grover Thurber
Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.