| | |

Wrong quotes

edits filters

“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” - 1785

“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“Thus to persist in doing wrong extenuates not wrong, but makes it much more heavy.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” Confucius, “Analects”

“If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“We may then lay down this rule of friendship—neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Friendship” - 44 BC

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a...” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“Suffering . . . Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

Related topics

right madness responsibility life discretion reason appearance truth ignorance friendship sadness revenge justice suffering sin opinion power silence forgiveness comfort

Related authors

William Shakespeare (3)
Sophocles (2)
Jane Austen (1)
Oscar Wilde (1)
J. K. Rowling (1)
Charlotte Brontë (1)
John Green (1)
G. K. Chesterton (1)
C. S. Lewis (1)
H. G. Wells (1)
Mahatma Gandhi (1)
Confucius (1)
Louisa May Alcott (1)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
Thomas Jefferson (1)
Thomas Paine (1)
Blaise Pascal (1)
Marcus Aurelius (1)
Voltaire (1)

Related sources

Antigone (2)
Richard III (1)
Northanger Abbey (1)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)
Troilus and Cressida (1)
Jane Eyre (1)
What's Wrong with the World (1)
Mere Christianity (1)
The Time Machine (1)
The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1)
Analects (1)
Little Women (1)
The Social Contract (1)
On Friendship (1)
Notes on the State of Virginia (1)
Common Sense (1)
Pensées (1)
Meditations (1)
Candide (1)