To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking…

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

— Ann B. Ross

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

— William Blake

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

— Voltaire

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know…

— Epictetus

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the…

— James Sharp

I would never risk speaking ill of Messi.

— Gerardo Martino

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

— Voltaire

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

— Tom Stoppard

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

— Samuel Johnson

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we…

— Teju Cole

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

— Horace

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

— Arlene Croce

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with…

— Dylan Thomas

The desire to know is natural to good men.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

— Ben Jonson