Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Emmet

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Diogenes

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Thomas Paine

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Horace

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Tony Sammons

We can make a lot more noise together than we can separately.

Robert Carlyle

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

W. C. Fields

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

Drew Brown

I'm trying not to make a lot of noise here. I come in in the mornings, and I cringe.

Neal Stephenson

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Milan Kundera

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Jim Slavin

I try to keep the noise down when I'm working.

Cervantes Saavedra

Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.

Pierre Schaeffer

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

Robert Emmet

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Diogenes

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

George R. R. Martin

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

Horace

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.