Top 100 Better Not Quotes
#1. No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
Benjamin Disraeli
#2. Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.
Amanda Bouchet
#3. I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.
David Koechner
#4. Mattie rolled his eyes. "And I've have my fair share of ugly in my life, so I'm kind of used to it".
"You better not be referring to me, sack-sucker".
Lila Rose
#5. Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
Sidney Howard
#6. I hold out my fist and knock on the glass. I watch Abram's brain process the sound, probably doesn't hear it very often unless he's got a late-night side-skank I'm unaware of, and he better not.
Jay Clark
#7. They better not put me in the All -Star Game. I won't shoot, but I'll dominate that easy game. I'll be playing hard defense. I'll be foulin'. I'll be flagrant fouling. Everyone will be like, 'What are you doing?'
Metta World Peace
#9. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
Robert Cormier
#10. Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.
Kristen Bell
#12. I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.
C.S. Lewis
#13. This better not be a pregnant thing or your hot little ass is gonna live knocked up for the next thirty years.
Abbi Glines
#14. Love was supposed to make you better, not make you hate the person you became in order to obtain it. His
Jay Crownover
#15. Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now
in this bright, laughing moment
and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
Clive Barker
#16. I'd kill for you, Kylie Galen. But more than that, I'd die for you."
She felt a tear roll down her cheek. "You'd better not die on me, Lucas Parker.
C.C. Hunter
#17. Tis better not to be than to vilely live."
"Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.
Sophocles
#18. I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
Curtis LeMay
#19. Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
Otto Von Bismarck
#20. But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner.
Camilo Jose Cela Conde
#21. Two jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender says, "You guys better not start anything in here!
Various
#22. I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!
Sue Whitaker
#23. God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.
Johanna Spyri
#24. Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard Bach
#25. I'm not sure when, or if, anything will ever get better, not sure if these wounds are the kind that can heal.
Veronica Roth
#26. It's better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatrist for the same outburst of emotions later. Emotions are a bonding mechanism for humans. So, use 'em, abuse 'em and utilize 'em.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
Anton Chekhov
#28. In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
Isabel Allende
#29. To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
Josh Lanyon
#30. When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Zach Wamp
#31. Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better - not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.
Chuck Klosterman
#32. Elizabeth Hamilton! What are you doing riding that horse? Nick's going to be so angry with you!" "Nick's not around," Elizabeth said tartly. "Well, you'd better not break your neck. We've enough problems as it is." "I won't.
Debra Holland
#33. I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.
George R R Martin
#34. I'm going to fuck you tonight in ways you've never been fucked before, Isa. I'm in complete control tonight. Do you understand? I don't want any sass from you. I want you to give yourself completely to me and I better not sense any hesitation from you.
Ella Dominguez
#35. Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel
#36. Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that - at the moment - I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.
Charlaine Harris
#38. In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.
Jean Reno
#39. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
Sophia Loren
#40. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#42. Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
Stephen King
#43. Approached literally, there's but a hair's difference between You'd better not pout, you'd better not cry, and Don't scream.
Dana Gould
#44. Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Cory Doctorow
#45. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
James Gleick
#46. If there's no-one to show pleasure when you come home, then it's better not to live.
Magda Szabo
#47. It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.
Laozi
#48. The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.
Akshay Dubey
#49. I'll go watch a movie with you," I say to Warren. "But it better not be a porn.
Colleen Hoover
#50. It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#51. Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.
Greg Behrendt
#52. Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
George Santayana
#53. Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person.
John Bingham
#54. Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#55. If you can't get it across in words, then it's better not to try.
Haruki Murakami
#56. Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
Ville Valo
#57. I mean now to try and see her as soon as I can: or perhaps, on second thoughts, I had better not; it is better I should behold her through the eyes of her lover. To my sight, perhaps, she would not appear as she now stands before me; and why should I destroy so sweet a picture?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself.
Shannon Hale
#59. New Rule: A dog is the only animal that can get you laid. No offense, parrot guy, but it's not gonna happen. When women see you, they're not thinking, "I bet that guy is interesting," they're thinking, "That bird better not shit on my dress.
Bill Maher
#60. The damned bitch has questions to answer. So she better not be dead. She can save that for when we've done.
Shehanne Moore
#61. You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse.
Elon Musk
#62. My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
Felix Okoye
#64. I stared at the couch with revulsion. "She's someone's daughter, Travis. What if, down the line, someone treats your daughter like that?"
"My daughter better not drop her panties for some jackass she just met, let's put it that way.
Jamie McGuire
#65. In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter.
Martin Amis
#66. Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you'll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE.
Neil Young
#67. You better not turn out to be an asshole," she says quietly.
"And you better be done with that guy in Italy," I reply.
Colleen Hoover
#68. It is unforgivable that men and women who have worked the land and served us for generations should be so bewildered and fearful, because of laws made to accommodate the greed of others," Darcy said, "Laws are meant to make the lives of citizens better, not worse.
Rebecca Ann Collins
#69. If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
Nadine Gordimer
#70. You had better not," I shouted after him."Do you hear me,O'Malley? I will tell Gavin's sister you slept with a stuffed bunny abbit until you were in middle school,so help me God!
Jennifer Echols
#71. Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
Margaret Atwood
#72. Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Haruki Murakami
#73. It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.
Angela Lansbury
#74. The old dictum was backward. It should be "Better not to
have loved at all, than to love and have lost." I had done the
right thing, I reassured myself. So why did it feel like I had
made the biggest mistake of my life?
Amy Plum
#75. I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.
Abbi Glines
#76. It is better not to have a box rather than trying to think outside of one.
Geoffroy Birtz
#77. Forgiveness.
It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.
Ian Gardner
#78. I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.
James Patterson
#79. Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean Rostand
#80. If you will pardon my saying so," Tharkay said, "you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?
Naomi Novik
#81. You'd better not be messing with me. I like you, but if you're feeding me a load of shit just to get some action, I'm going to plug a big silver stake right through your heart.(Cat)
Jeaniene Frost
#82. Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone - in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
William H Gass
#83. Those who deal with customers on a regular basis should be circumspect whenever they open their "traps." It is better not to say anything at all than to say, and later, pay!
J. N. HALM
#84. But I'm expected. Palfrey. I - " "Oh, yes, sir! Better not try to get the jeep along the street, though Mind
John Creasey
#85. If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.
Frederick Lenz
#86. There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing I'm not contributing to that.
Sophie Monk
#87. Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference
Barbara Elsborg
#88. Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
Yolanda Adams
#89. With no small remorse, she thought, "He and his mess
Better not come near this fabulous dress".
David Rakoff
#90. And i know better, not to be friends with boys with girlfriends, oh I know better than that, i know better. you'll play the victim, and i'll be the bad guy, but i know better than that, no i know better.
Meiko
#91. Better not to remember. Better not to know. You can't mourn what you never had.
Rick Yancey
#92. Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.
Yangsze Choo
#93. You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
Janis Joplin
#94. wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael
Agatha Christie
#95. Sometimes it was better not to ever live the fantasy. Because when reality descended, it outlined in stark detail just how much the real world sucked.
Maya Banks
#96. It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Italo Calvino
#97. I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
Nell Freudenberger
#98. Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt
John Green
#100. Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
Janet Morris
