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
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of. Antisthenes
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. Jeanette Winterson
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverb
He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants. Italian Proverb
A man cannot eat his cake and haue it stil: / That may he, vnlesse his retention be ill. English Proverb