Should Quotes - page 5

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. View quote
Edith Wharton
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves. View quote
Brendan Behan
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. View quote
William McKinley
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. (Vladimir Nabokov)
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. View quote
Thomas More
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? View quote
Erma Bombeck
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. View quote
Coco Chanel
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes. View quote
Bella Abzug
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. (Max Beerbohm)
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. View quote
Ann Landers
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. View quote
Stendhal
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. View quote
Peter Ustinov
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. View quote
Peter Ustinov