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I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth. -- Ann B. Ross
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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 me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.' -- Epictetus
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. -- Napoleon Hill
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. -- Edwin Edwards
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. -- Sextus Propertius
I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead. -- April Winchell
I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans. -- Fred Upton
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. -- Plato
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. -- Benjamin Franklin
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. -- Antiphanes
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. -- John Tillotson
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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
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 to say. -- 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 not alive. -- William Hazlitt
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 is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. -- Horatio Nelson
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it. -- Louise Nurding
I am never less disposed to sadness than when ill and alone. Sometimes I have fancied that it was the nature of my disease to create a rising, elastic state of mind, but be that as it will (I speak solemnly), the hour of bodily suffering is to me the hour of spiritual joy. It is then that most I feel my dependence on God and his power to sustain. -- Dorothea Dix
The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman. -- Remy de Gourmont
Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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