Top 62 Betters Quotes
#1. Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
Peter Mullan
#2. asks as I turn. "A bow to your betters won't go awry, doncha
Pierce Brown
#4. I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#5. They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their betters.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. You're a spelling bee champ, aren't you, White Fang? How do you spell, 'If I don't learn to speak to my betters with more respect, I'm going to get my face smashed in'?"
Tom laughed, unable to resist. "That one's easy. It's K-A-R-L.
S.J. Kincaid
#7. Of course, Admiral Ackbar is a student of history, and in many cases smaller, lesser forces have outmatched and outfoxed their betters. The Ghostfinder fleet versus the Sith armada. The Mandalorians versus the Grand Army of the Republic. And, of course, the Rebel Alliance versus the Empire. History
Chuck Wendig
#9. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
Anne Bronte
#10. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
#11. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#12. Don't you have any respect for your betters?"
"I do. That's why I'm going to help her up the stairs and put her to bed with a cup of hot tea. You can just sit here and ... jangle your manacle!
Christina Dodd
#13. You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.
James Lee Burke
#14. I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
Jack Vance
#15. Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?
Geraldine Brooks
#16. Theseus overturned this by a single stroke: he moved the sessions outdoors, to the hill of the Pnyx, where the people could attend and observe their betters. What a revolution this affected! Before,
Steven Pressfield
#17. People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be.
Wilkie Collins
#18. Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
George Ade
#19. To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please
respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#21. Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#22. There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.
Michael Moore
#23. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.
H.L. Mencken
#24. Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
#25. The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
Plutarch
#26. The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
H.L. Mencken
#27. Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For
Alan Dean Foster
#29. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
El Greco
#31. But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all.
N.K. Jemisin
#32. It is absurd to ape our betters.
Aesop
#33. The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
H.L. Mencken
#34. Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
Thomas Otway
#35. When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
Thomas Perez
#36. the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.
Francis Wheen
#37. CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
Albert Camus
#39. Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
Charles Churchill
#40. The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell
#41. Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
Warren Buffett
#42. "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Ayn Rand
#43. And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.
It is the failing of his lifetime.
Kim Wright
#44. Dream sets us on fire.
Dream gives us direction.
Dream betters our potential.
Dream helps us prioritize.
Dream adds value to our work and
life.
Dream colors our future.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#46. Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
#47. In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light
that our betters spoke of.
John Steinbeck
#48. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
Oscar Wilde
#49. It can be so difficult to train up the peasants," she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. "They find it so hard to project the kind of snobbery that comes so naturally to their betters.
Caitlin Crews
#50. Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.
C.S. Harris
#51. You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests.
Caroline Dunford
#52. Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.
Paul Oakenfold
#53. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!
Hope Mirrlees
#55. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters.
Robertson Davies
#56. I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters
mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
Arthur Wimperis
#57. If men like Boyle think that force is all they need to rob their betters - let them see what happens when one of their betters chooses to resort to force.
Ayn Rand
#58. I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
Rudyard Kipling
#59. Everyone here was the cleverest little monkey in his or her particular tree. Except now we're all in one tree together. It can be a shock. Not enough coconuts to go round. You'll be dealing with your equals for the first time in your life, and your betters. You won't like it.
Lev Grossman
#60. Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
George Herbert
#61. When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
William Shakespeare
#62. Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters.
Debasish Mridha
