slander quotes

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.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto106, l.17^32.

To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.465^70.

It takes yourenemyand your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Following the Equator, ch.45.