A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. - Homer

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands. - Joseph Parker

Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. - James Thomson

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. -Seneca

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it. - Lyman Beecher

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that he tells of racy doings, but that he pretends to be indignant about them. - H. L. Mencken

I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true. - Kathryn Hepburn

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.- Moliere

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. - Samuel Johnson

A slander is like a hornet; if you can’t kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. - Josh Billings

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander’s venomed spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison - William Shakespeare

Yeah. Illegitimi nil carborundum! Now…..

What contemptible scoundrel took the cork out of my lunch?