Dead Quote by George Herbert

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

— April Winchell

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

— Terry Pratchett

And not to serve for a table-talk.

— Michel de Montaigne

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

— Anonymous

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

— Daniel Barenboim

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

— Ann B. Ross

I don't just talk to the dead.

— Sylvia Browne

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

— Ben Jonson

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison -…

— Cornel West

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

— Harold Pinter