De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a Latin phrase thar indicates that it is socially inappropriate to say anything negative about a deceased person.
: In Act 1, in an effort at light metaphor, the bourgeois character Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, misquotes the Latin phrase Nil nisi bonum and conflates it with the maxim De gustibus non est disputandum (“About taste there is no disputing”), which results in the mixed mortuary opinion: De gustibus aut bene, aut nihil (“Let nothing be said of taste, but what is good”).
To Nisi | Qasr al-Nil Bridge | Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital | Nil per os | Nil Karaibrahimgil | One Nil | Miniature for the entry ''etas'' "age" in the ''Omne Bonum | Generał Nil | De mortuis nil nisi bonum | Bonum sane |