Quotes About Wrong

I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".

There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a theft. I was living in the town, and I was hired to investigate the theft, and I thought the girl had nothing to do with it. I was almost thirteen and I was wrong. I was wrong about all of it. I should have asked the question 'Why would somebody say something was stolen when it was never theirs in the first place?' Instead, I asked the wrong question—four wrong questions, more or less.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, as justice loves to sit and watch as everything goes wrong.

You can't see it on me, but hidden in the depths of my life is the permanent opinion that a match is a wicked thing. This is wrong, of course. It's nonsense. A match is only as wicked as the person who is using it.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Everything popular is wrong. ~ OSCAR WILDE

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

Fair is fair, Buzzy—and you're foul by a mile. You tried to pull a fast one with that phony scarecrow. But you messed with the wrong guy. Now the trick's on you. It's time to hit the road. Yeah, Kim said. Just dry up and blow away.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim unknown stands God, Within the shadow keeping watch above his own.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together.

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

There was a word Papa always shook his head after pronouncing—it was "bank." Frank wasn't sure which of the three things that could go wrong at a bank Papa was worried about—the bank "going under," the bank "cutting him off," or the bank getting robbed.

us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.

Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.

For peer review, replication, and objectivity to make any headway on the continuum, for science to find the right answers to anything, there have to be wrong - or at least unlikely - answers.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.

Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.