Slander
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false Alexander Hamilton
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at Jonathan Swift
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body; the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin Tryon Edwards
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of Hebrew proberb
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one -- it flies as well as creeps D.W. Jerrold
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it H.W. Shaw
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears Plautus
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero even in the country of his victims. Alan Barth