Speak Ill Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive… — Jean de la Bruyere
• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
• Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. — Andre Siegfried
• When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. — Plato
• I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead. — April Winchell
• Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain does not laugh… — Koichi Tohei
• Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
• T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. — Ronald Reagan
• I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans. — Fred Upton
• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Propertius
• I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. — Edwin Edwards
• Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it… — Anthony Trollope
• It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the… — George Gissing
• The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it. — William Hazlitt
• Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. — Benjamin Franklin
• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing… — Will Durant
• Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are… — William Hazlitt
• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. — Napoleon Hill
• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. — Samuel Johnson
• We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Who Wrote These Speak Ill Quotes

31 authors contributed a total of 36 Speak Ill Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Speak Ill Quotes by Pacifiersucker
• 2 Speak Ill Quotes by Plato
• 2 Speak Ill Quotes by William Hazlitt
• 2 Speak Ill Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
• 2 Speak Ill Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Vikrant Parsai
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by George Herbert
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Jhoni13
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Jean de la Bruyere
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Samuel Beckett
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Andre Siegfried
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by April Winchell
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Koichi Tohei
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Fred Upton
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Propertius
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Edwin Edwards
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Anthony Trollope
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by George Gissing
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Will Durant
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Napoleon Hill
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by Donald Rumsfeld
• 1 Speak Ill Quote by John Tillotson