Respect for the Deceased Quotes

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

It is not right to glory in the slain

I was labeled 'P-E-A,' which is patient expired on arrival. I guess that's the politically correct way of saying you didn't make it.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

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

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.