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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Wrong |
| Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. Landor. | 1 | ||||||||
| There is no God dare wrong a worm. Emerson. | 2 | ||||||||
| Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. Gay. | 3 | ||||||||
| Wrong cannot have a legal descendant. Thomas Paine. | 4 | ||||||||
| Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. Wordsworth. | 5 | ||||||||
| The multitude is always in the wrong. Wentworth Dillon. | 6 | ||||||||
| It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. Spenser. | 7 | ||||||||
| I see the right, and I approve it too; condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. Ovid. | 8 | ||||||||
| Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. Lowell. | 9 | ||||||||
| My soul is sick with every day’s report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. Cowper. | 10 | ||||||||
| The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. Coleridge. | 11 | ||||||||
| Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. Joubert. | 12 | ||||||||
| It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Johnson. | 13 | ||||||||
| He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. Tupper. | 14 | ||||||||
| Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, but still beget new mischiefs in their course. Daniel. | 15 | ||||||||
| Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. Rivarol. | 16 | ||||||||
| It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. Hosea Ballou. | 17 | ||||||||
| We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. Dewey. | 18 | ||||||||
| Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; they learn in suffering what they teach in song. Shelley. | 19 | ||||||||
| It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss is the formula of human history. Theodore Parker. | 20 | ||||||||
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| There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. La Rochefoucauld. | 21 | ||||||||
Bayard Taylor. | 22 | ||||||||
| To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to require it. J. Beaumont. | 23 | ||||||||
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