Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Insults Calumny

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

~ Seneca

Seneca Insults Calumny

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Edgar Watson Howe Insults Calumny

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

~ Pauline Kael

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Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

~ Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope Insults Calumny