Ill Quotes

Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy. (Pittacus of Mytilene)
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. View quote
Sophocles
Cynicism is humour in ill health. View quote
H. G. Wells
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. View quote
Francis Bacon
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. View quote
Jonathan Swift
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The man who does ill must suffer ill. View quote
Aeschylus
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. (George Eliot)
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. View quote
Philip Roth
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. View quote
John Dryden
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. View quote
J. L. Austin
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. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old. View quote
Neil Kinnock
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. View quote
William Shenstone
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. (Michel de Montaigne)
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. View quote
Thomas More
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. View quote
Propertius
Great causes and little men go ill together. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru