Wrongdoing Quotes

73 quotes by 64 authors

But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need… — J. Reuben Clark
Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point… — Ashly Lorenzana
There are differnt kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — George Eliot
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong.… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. — Marcus Aurelius
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly — Samuel Johnson
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way. — Ben Jonson
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. — Euripides
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. — Epicurus
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. — Barbara Tuchman
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness. — Aeschylus
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each… — Meister Eckhart
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they… — Walter Dean Myers
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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