Top 100 Ill Quotes

#1. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Ill Quotes #556
#2. Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Aeschylus

Ill Quotes #1086
#3. Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
Beset with every ill but that of fear.
The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

William Cowper

Ill Quotes #1790
#4. Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

Vincent De Paul

Ill Quotes #1839
#5. A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight - any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking.

Diana Gabaldon

Ill Quotes #1872
#6. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

Salmon P. Chase

Ill Quotes #2121
#7. I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.

Brian Regan

Ill Quotes #2923
#8. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Ill Quotes #3246
#9. Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Rita Moreno

Ill Quotes #4145
#10. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Lester B. Pearson

Ill Quotes #5233
#11. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Ill Quotes #5302
#12. Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

Fred Shero

Ill Quotes #5346
#13. Ill equipped leaders produces ill equipped people

Ikechukwu Joseph

Ill Quotes #6392
#14. You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ill Quotes #7862
#15. That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, ... I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ill Quotes #10022
#16. Claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself
shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here

Rachel Caine

Ill Quotes #10564
#17. And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Horace

Ill Quotes #10856
#18. But sweat is the kindest creature of the three - far better than philosophy, as a cure for ill thoughts.

C.S. Lewis

Ill Quotes #11794
#19. Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Silius Italicus

Ill Quotes #12171
#20. A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Mark Twain

Ill Quotes #12382
#21. Van Dusen emphasizes that our common conception of the mentally ill is flawed. The majority of them, he says, are not "raving lunatics" as one might think. "Most of these people have become entangled in inner processes and simply fail to manage their lives well.

Louis Proud

Ill Quotes #12801
#22. Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

Christopher Hitchens

Ill Quotes #13566
#23. Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Carla H. Krueger

Ill Quotes #15344
#24. Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.

Tess Stimson

Ill Quotes #16122
#25. you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do ill and color it so.

Julia Fox

Ill Quotes #16281
#26. The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

Alexis De Tocqueville

Ill Quotes #17938
#27. Tis an ill wind that blows no minds

Gregory Hill

Ill Quotes #18543
#28. It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.

Oscar Wilde

Ill Quotes #18773
#29. The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.

Samuel Johnson

Ill Quotes #19537
#30. I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

Ravi Shankar

Ill Quotes #19714
#31. I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

Karen Armstrong

Ill Quotes #19997
#32. I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Ill Quotes #20002
#33. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

Ill Quotes #20816
#34. 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

Thom Yorke

Ill Quotes #21358
#35. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.

Walter Mosley

Ill Quotes #21463
#36. Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

Mel Brooks

Ill Quotes #21889
#37. A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Pericles

Ill Quotes #23869
#38. & he ill, he real, he might gotta deal
He pop bottles & he got the right kinda bill

Nicki Minaj

Ill Quotes #24424
#39. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ill Quotes #24665
#40. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.

Nick Cave

Ill Quotes #25474
#41. Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them...

Yale University

Ill Quotes #25721
#42. Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

John Ruskin

Ill Quotes #27107
#43. Pointed teeth would give one an appearance of ferocity," he said, tapping a straight white tooth. "Although that might require one to follow through with biting someone from time to time, and the thought is enough to make one feel ill. I don't even like my meat cooked rare.

Danielle L. Jensen

Ill Quotes #28133
#44. I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Mike Quigley

Ill Quotes #28196
#45. It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ill Quotes #28971
#46. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.

Frederick Lenz

Ill Quotes #30135
#47. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

George Herbert

Ill Quotes #30528
#48. The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, No more shall cut his master.

William Shakespeare

Ill Quotes #30688
#49. Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

Peter Piot

Ill Quotes #30892
#50. I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Bryan Adams

Ill Quotes #33051
#51. The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Plato

Ill Quotes #33171
#52. A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.

Peace Pilgrim

Ill Quotes #33245
#53. Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

Jacob M. Appel

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#54. Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged, if we are ill or unblessed with beauty?

Olivia Laing

Ill Quotes #35385
#55. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Henry Walter Bates

Ill Quotes #35879
#56. I got a ill gift, I'm real swift
They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.'
When I send my Men in Black,
Listen, none of them niggas named Will Smith.

Cam'ron

Ill Quotes #36027
#57. An ill deede cannot bring honour.

George Herbert

Ill Quotes #36316
#58. Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.

Steven Magee

Ill Quotes #36591
#59. No pills gonna cure my ill.

Robert Palmer

Ill Quotes #38335
#60. I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

Roseanne Barr

Ill Quotes #38411
#61. For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill

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#62. Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

John Armstrong

Ill Quotes #43333
#63. The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#64. Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

John Dryden

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#65. There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

Philippa Carr

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#66. I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Harriet Martineau

Ill Quotes #46638
#67. Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Mason Cooley

Ill Quotes #47450
#68. If one of these, if a hundred of them, a thousand, came too soon or failed to thrive or were born incomplete somehow, born blue or ill made or with reason's taut string already snapped, it was of little matter in the long history of God's bustling. There

Alice McDermott

Ill Quotes #48109
#69. Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Hector Hugh Munro

Ill Quotes #48217
#70. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill

Ill Quotes #48683
#71. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

Charlotte Bronte

Ill Quotes #51218
#72. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

Agatha Christie

Ill Quotes #51274
#73. I shared a compartment with a half-dozen muffled-up soldiers who had only arrived the day before, including an ill-favoured young Catalan whose pox-pitted cheeks sprouted stubble like a grave in May.

Laurie Lee

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#74. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Thomas Jefferson

Ill Quotes #53737
#75. If God created us to do good works of eternal significance, he would not create us ill-prepared for those tasks.

Christine Caine

Ill Quotes #54676
#76. O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

Ill Quotes #55546
#77. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Dale Carnegie

Ill Quotes #55745
#78. The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Ill Quotes #56689
#79. We are ill-fated in that our society demands we engage in unworthy conversations and dances in order to seem courteous, and yet such actions are ultimately vulgar.

Shannon Hale

Ill Quotes #57736
#80. The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ill Quotes #58993
#81. At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.

Richard Bentall

Ill Quotes #60992
#82. A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

Vincent De Paul

Ill Quotes #61537
#83. If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

Gautama Buddha

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#84. It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

Alison Krauss

Ill Quotes #63333
#85. After a particularly disheartening day in my freshman year of high school, in which my arrogance had once again stirred up the insecurity of my classmates and driven them to acts of ill-concealed hostility,

Kate Mulgrew

Ill Quotes #63432
#86. The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

Ken Livingstone

Ill Quotes #64433
#87. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.

Richelle Thompson

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#88. The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#89. It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

Aeschylus

Ill Quotes #65315
#90. My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

Tracey Berkowitz

Ill Quotes #65624
#91. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Samuel Rogers

Ill Quotes #67863
#92. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ill Quotes #68731
#93. Let not thy peace depend on the tongues of men; for whether they judge well of thee or ill, thou art not on that account other than thyself. Where are true peace and true glory? Are they not in God? And he that careth not to please men, nor feareth to displease them, shall enjoy much peace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Ill Quotes #69615
#94. Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.

Charlotte Bronte

Ill Quotes #69811
#95. When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

Ferran Adria

Ill Quotes #69871
#96. Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

Clive Tyldesley

Ill Quotes #70391
#97. I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

Shirley Tallman

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#98. There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

George Herbert

Ill Quotes #71302
#99. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.

Edmund Burke

Ill Quotes #71715
#100. Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I. F. Stone

Ill Quotes #74250

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