Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.