Ill

Famous quotes containing the word ill:

“In my experience, persons, when they are made the subject of conversation, though with a Friend, are commonly the most prosaic and trivial of facts. The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals. Our discourse all runs to slander, and our limits grow narrower as we advance. How is it that we are impelled to treat our old Friends so ill when we obtain new ones?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“This was an ill beginning of the night.
Never come such division ‘tween our souls!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)