Malicious Slander/Quotes

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."

—William Shakespeare

"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

—Mark Twain

"You sit maligning your own kin, slandering the child of your own mother."

—Psalm 50

"If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!"

—Matthew 10

"It takes a lifetime to build a reputation, and a single rumor to destroy it."

—Proverbial

"You can't even go out with a friend who's a celebrity and have a good time without people making shit up."

—Rihanna, from a January 2008 issue of Allure magazine