Top 100 Quotes About Should Have Known
#1. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She
Jodi Picoult
#2. But he should have known that on top of hating his guts, I was also a virgin.
L.J. Shen
#3. A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. I should have known. You were always so good to me. I was blinded by my love for you.
Kahlen Aymes
#5. With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.
David Levithan
#6. I should have known that from the moment I met you that there would be no going back. That I will never be the same. I know now that I'll never recover from loving you, Diana Alexander.
Kate Evangelista
#7. The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
Jilly Cooper
#8. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!
Elizabeth Adams
#9. The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
George Gordon Byron
#10. She should have known never to love anything so much she couldn't bear to lose it. That was life's lesson.
Michael Sledge
#11. I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
Tom Petty
#12. Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.
Jon Stewart
#13. I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.
Margaret Atwood
#14. I should have known right then that I was dreaming. But oh how we hang on to dreams even when we are gifted the largest of clues.
Jesse Giles Christiansen
#15. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me ...
Charlotte Bronte
#16. And you'll cry out my name you'll finally know what you should have known So very long ago.
Charles Bukowski
#17. If my name were Mememem, and I had just ran into someone who should have known my name but couldn't recall it, I'd probably say, I can't believe you don't remememember my name.
Jarod Kintz
#18. And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering ... that the world can't take away from you.
Simon R. Green
#19. He comes out in shorts and the same V-neck shirt. One of his legs from just below the knee is a prosthesis. It's made of a dark metal and has swirling, jagged patterns on it. I feel like I should have known this, but I've only seen him in pants because it's winter. "Sorry,
Alison Evans
#20. I did it - I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops' garden-party against his will.
We all make mistakes occasionally.
Saki
#21. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.
A.J. Liebling
#22. If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
Dave Eggers
#23. I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.
Agatha Christie
#24. Fire isn't patient. Fire does not negotiate. I should have known these things.
Mark Lawrence
#25. With a gentle hand, he brushed his shellan's cheek. "I've never been in a relationship before you. I should have known that we'd hit a wall at some point."
"That's the way it works.
J.R. Ward
#26. I had never been to a rodeo before. I had no idea how crazy white people could be. Considering I had been abandoned by a white, crack addict mother, I should have known.
Amy Harmon
#27. How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it ... And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this. Garrett
Iris Johansen
#28. I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
Stanley Fish
#29. I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people. What else on this earth is there to hide?
Nick Dybek
#31. Have either of you seen your mother "
"Yeah " Ethan said and my heart actually skipped a beat.
But I should have known Ethan was joking. "Slim lady. Blue eyes and a gray pageboy " he continued his eyes glistening in appreciation of his own humor. "Answers to the name 'Mom'.
Rachel Vincent
#33. Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy
#34. I should have known he and I weren't going to make it when for my seventeenth birthday he gave me a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester. You know, to test batteries before I put them in my Walkman. Like you give someone when you're in love.
Tina Fey
#35. They rarely look at Baba
the teenagers
and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
Khaled Hosseini
#36. Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?
Lilith Saintcrow
#38. Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"
She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. "It's when your chest falls into your drawers. Get ready for it, honey, because with that rack of yours, you'll be using them as knee pads before you know it.
Annelise Ryan
#39. Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.
Jimmy Carter
#40. Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
#41. You should have known
The price of evil
And it hurts to know that you belong here
Yeah
No one to call
Everybody to fear
Your tragic fate is looking so clear
Yeah
Oooooooh
It's your fucking nightmare
-Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold
#42. I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God. I
Maya Angelou
#43. Oh, this sounds promising. I guess we should have known two control freaks weren't going to get along.
Jamie McGuire
#44. I should have known better. Arguing with Drew is like dealing with a terrorist. He has no boundaries; nothing's off limits. There are no depths he won't sink to to win. Then he looks thoughtful.
Emma Chase
#45. I should have known better than to assume you'd been corrupted by the rest of them. Perhaps you'll be able to corrupt them instead.
Brandon Sanderson
#46. He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.
Douglas Adams
#47. She had me alright. I was a fucked up mess. I should have known it was hopeless to try to get her out of my system and nothing could make me fall out of love.
Kahlen Aymes
#48. We should have known.
maybe we wanted cotton candy luck. maybe we
believed. what trash.
we believed like dogs
believe.
Charles Bukowski
#49. We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.
Toba Beta
#50. Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
#51. Oh, was that what you meant? I figured you were speaking of your manner of whoring. I should have known you were wanting to fuck me too.
Sai Marie Johnson
#52. Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#53. Decebel turned and growled, "One of these days your mouth is going to write a check that your cute little ass can't cash." Decebel thought this would render her speechless but he should have known better.
"Oh, don't worry fur ball, I plan to be writing that check out in your name.
Quinn Loftis
#54. 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
#55. But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.
Julia Quinn
#56. Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins.
Rebecca Traister
#57. I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.
Heidi Montag
#58. Of course, she should have known better than to go out with one of the muscle heads from her gym...It was a shame that a brain was optional equipment on his model, and he had not paid for the upgrade.
Julia Mills
#59. He should have known someone like Lucien de Malheur would offer no loyalty, no male solidarity.
Anne Stuart
#60. I should have known better. I shouldn't have let my guard down. That's been a big rule of mine for the last year or so. It's easy to get your heart broken or your shoes stolen.
Loni Flowers
#61. Miss Trefoil must have thought that kissing and proposing were the same thing. Other young ladies have, perhaps, before now made such a mistake. But this young lady had had much experience, and should have known better.
Anthony Trollope
#62. Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.
John Marsden
#63. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
Ally Carter
#64. Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?
Gordon Korman
#65. I should have known you'd have no taste," Olivia says and rubs her temples. "Tacky from the tips of her toes, to her hair colored with what I can only assume is actual bleach." She turns and points to John. "Hey, you would know. Does the carpet match the drapes?
Katelin LaMontagne
#66. She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter.
Ray Bradbury
#67. I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.
Dennis Kozlowski
#68. I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
Cate Tiernan
#69. I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories-lives-for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives-without feeling that he needed to bother to save them.
They're damaged, after all.
Veronica Roth
#70. I haven't slept with him, Mom." I whispered, lying through my teeth. I just didn't want to discuss my sex life with her. She would probably critique my oral skills or something.
"I should have known. You don't sleep with anybody. That's why you can't keep a man.
L.D. Davis
#71. I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#72. Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.
Scott Belsky
#73. And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault."
"It isn't?"
"No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb."
Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.
Christine Feehan
#74. I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.
Jodi Picoult
#75. When you really want to find someone, it isn't that hard. I should have known all along that she wasn't looking. I feel so stupid.
There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved.
Nina LaCour
#76. I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it.
Trey Gowdy
#77. Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.
Artur Davis
#78. He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
#79. I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
Woody Allen
#80. Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long.
Toni Morrison
#81. So we are of the world, after all; we should have known that. We did know it, I believe; but we had to withdraw a little, pretend a little, so that we could -
John Edward Williams
#82. Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh ... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#83. I thought all was lost. But I should have known better. My sweet, brave, bluestocking. You are made of sterner stuff than that. And I should have trusted you to save yourself.
Manda Collins
#84. I was eighteen years old, and I thought I loved him. I should have known, but I didn't.
And I don't deserve to be abused for it. Judged for it. Called names.
I don't deserve to have my life ruined.
Robin York
#85. Much of the country cursed Aaron Burr. He never recovered his political reputation. He wandered Europe for several years. When he was an old man, a thoughtful Aaron said, 'I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.
Don Brown
#86. Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn't everybody?" She snapped her fingers. "The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I've decided I have to shoot you after all. It's the only way to preserve my sanity.
Christine Feehan
#87. I should have known [ ... ] I am the rain. [ ... ] I am the land [ ... ] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.
John Steinbeck
#88. So she's been to college, too. I should have known. That's what we get then," he said nastily, "for educating women. They get all kinds of ridiculous ideas."
"Oh, I don't know," Marian said with a touch of sharpness, "there's some men it doesn't do much good for either.
Margaret Atwood
#90. If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#91. I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.
George MacDonald Fraser
#92. Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.
Lorna Landvik
#93. He should have known. She was the only wanna be immortal he'd ever known.
Beth Bares
#94. When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
Hilary Mantel
#95. I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me.
Pippa DaCosta
#96. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.
Kiera Cass
#97. Cole should have known better. This man had probably tied down his wife and forced the wedding ring on her hand. He
Alessandra Torre
#98. I should have known that the cruelty of girls is intensified here, living together 24/7, hundreds of miles away from home.
Cat Clarke
#99. I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.
Gerard Donovan
#100. I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.
Linda Finch
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