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The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies. — John Dos Passos

Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business. — Mark Cuban

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate! — J.K. Rowling

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better ... — Joe Hill

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better — Maya Angelou

Nico and Hazel exchanged looks. They both knew better, but they said nothing. — Rick Riordan

Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the chance he had lived with all these years. — Isaac Asimov

I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
And having known you, love you better still. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally. — Alec Baldwin

Cyrus had once claimed that revenge was what made the world go round. Back then Evie had argued with him that it was love. But now she knew better. — Sarah Alderson

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene

Who knew better than Raquel that nothing lasts. Hope fades. And love ... love hurts. — Michelle Sutton

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead

I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead. — Bram Stoker

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew? — Craig Ferguson

We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else. — Rachel Higginson

Unremembered and afar
I watched as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view
And I loved you better than you knew. — Elizabeth Chase Allen

I knew I was bound for something different. Something better. I was meant to rule the stars, not gaze at them from under our poverty. — Colleen Oakes

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison

I knew it was silly, but I felt better being close to the front door, just in
case I had to make a run for it. — Kaitlin Scott

And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me. — Rosamund Lupton

Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it. — Elaine Dundy

It knew these things the same way a dog knows well the heart of the man it loves and understands it in better ways than the man could ever hope. — Lance Weller

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise. — Thomas Merton

I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo — Maya Angelou

They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls. — Agatha Christie

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. — Sebastian Thrun

If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better.
Tyrion Lannister — George R R Martin

He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. — Nelson DeMille

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it. — David Levithan

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. — Claes Oldenburg

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing. — Henry David Thoreau

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate. — Michael Lee West

She knew me better than anyone else in the world. And still wanted to have lunch with me. And let me go on and on about myself. — Julian Barnes

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything. — Andy Rooney

She deserves better. So much better. She deserves me. If only she knew that. — Colleen Hoover

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better. — Gia Coppola

[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better. — Ann Brashares

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth. — Stieg Larsson

A good politician always knew which way the winds were blowing: a better politician made the weather himself. — John Jackson Miller

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better. — Mark Forsyth

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better? — V.S. Carnes

Besides, I never knew that person. The person I've come to know is the one I want to get to know even better. — Nicholas Sparks

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me. — George Michael

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12 and it would have six versions and they were all better. — Rob Brown

Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing. — Jane Lotter

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe. — Jocelyn Gibb

The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it. — Megan Miranda

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. — Charles Dickens

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire. — Patrick Rothfuss

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf. — Tom Franklin

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better. — Kelley Armstrong

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him. — Richard Yates

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. — John F. Kennedy

She chose to fight men everyday, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers. — E.K. Johnston

I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better. — Atticus Poetry

People would do better, if they knew better. — Jim Rohn

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right. — Phyllis Diller

That was what I wanted: someone who knew me better than I knew myself, someone who knew all the worst parts of me, yet still loved me. — L.A. Fiore

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay. — Michelle Madow

If I could go back in time to when I was 18yrs old, I would take better notes this time, because back then I knew everything. — Michael Nuccio

Better for sure than Lotto had been. Well, she knew what that was like. — Lauren Groff

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. — Raymond Chandler

Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better. — Lindsey Kelk

The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden. — Eve Babitz

Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life. — Davor Banovic

He started to look back, but he knew better. That fool always got eaten in the movies. And Nick didn't want to be on anyone's menu. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did. — Ulysses S. Grant

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. — Gail Parent

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one. — Nawal El Saadawi

[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards. — Francois Lelord

Then, when I thought it couldn't get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I'm truly in Heaven. — Mandi Lynn

Eli, who believed in God and had a monster inside just like Victor, but knew how to hide it better. — V.E Schwab

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. — Ellis Peters

it was better if everybody knew where they stood. — Jams N. Roses

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better. — Rebecca Scherm

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were. — Les Wexner

In a lot of ways, he knew her better than she knew herself, mostly because when she looked inside herself, she hated what she saw. — S.G. Redling

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. — Peter O'Toole

She knew it was hopeless when he smelled better than the bacon. — Amanda Usen

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life. — Ethel Waters

The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better ... — Joseph Delaney

He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. — Ann Aguirre

Her hands are warm and soft. Hands I knew better then my own. — Nicholas Sparks

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding. — Frank Herbert

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him. — Selena Laurence

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. — Sarah Addison Allen

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila — Mark Salzman

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back. — Orson Scott Card

The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again. — Timothy Joshua

I needed to find a real sub. Someone who knew better than to talk back to me. Someone who took my word as law and didn't question what I did. — Teresa Mummert

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again. — Belinda Alexandra

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us. — Sophie Hannah