#libel

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#satire #satire

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ↗

— James Thurber

#libel #limitations #only #rules #taste

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#any #everyone #given #lawyers #libel

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. ↗

— Uri Geller

#caring #court #end #i #libel

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#business #fact #got #haven #i

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit. ↗

— Rand Paul

#anything #country #easier #england #impossible

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. ↗

— Elton John

#action #afford #against #because #cases