W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?”
“Why should I keep holiday / When other men have none? / Why but because, when these are gay, / I sit and mourn alone? / And why, when mirth unseals all tongues, / Should mine alone be dumb? / Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, / And now their hour is come.”
Source: Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why should I keep myself so safe?” he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?
“I love you,” said Elphaba.
“So that’s that then, and that’s it,” he answered her and himself. “And I love you. So I promise to be careful.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.”
Source: The Red Fairy Book
“Why should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy.”
“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.”
“Why should I let you take it?” “Because you owe me.” “Why do I owe you?” “Because I put up with you.”
Source: Faefever
“Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?”
“Why should I live each day being unloved?" -Ruth Ezrah”
Source: The Empty Couple: A Thriller
“Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!”
“Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?”
“Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.”
“Why should I mind?” She drummed her fingertips against his knee. “Because you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin?”
“Did you really?” He managed to sound annoyed, fascinated, and amused all at once.
“It’s not funny.”
“Of course it’s not.” He was quick to try and placate her. “But we can do something about those lectures real quick. All you have to do is marry me.”
Coyote Bluff had too many secrets that weren’t hers to share. She couldn’t put him in that position. He was a federal marshal. And she’d seen what all the lies her father told had done to her mother. She’d died hating him.
The last remnants of her earlier contentment vanished. “I like my independence.”
“Then I guess you’ll have to get used to the lectures, Sheriff Jezebel,” he replied.”
Source: Pale Moon Walking
“Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?”
Source: Collected Works
“Why should I need to be with a man who hurts me?" -Ruth Ezrah”
Source: The Empty Couple: A Thriller
“Why should I not defy
Destinies strong and dear;
What can man do but try?
(Kirtlan translation)”
Source: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Rendered Literally Into Modern English From the Alliterative Romance-poem of A.D. 1360, From Cotton Ms. Nero Ax in ... and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature
“Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?”
“Why should I not know what he's really called?"
"Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever," Carver muttered.”
Source: Deadmarsh Fey
“Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
“Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?”
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.”
“Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?”
“Why should I pay to watch when I can be paid to play?”
Source: Nerve
“Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.”
“Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.”
“Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?”
“Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?”
“Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?”
“Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?”
“Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.”
“Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.”
“Why should I say thank you?" asked Mini. "I knew you could do it.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“Why should I seek for love or study it?
It is of God and passes human wit;
I study hatred with great diligence,
For that's a passion in my own control,
A sort of besom that can clear the soul
Of everything that is not mind or sense.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow”
Source: On the Other Side
“Why should I shy away. If fate is kind or cruel, man still must try.”
“Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?”
“Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?”
“Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, -
A life-complete in death-complete to die.”
“Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.”
“Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.”
“Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?”
“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.”
Source: The Magus
“Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.”
“Why should I?
Tell me,
Why should I stroll in your journey
When it is your fate........................”
Source: TEARS FALL in MY HEART
“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.”
“Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?”
Source: Strong opinions
“Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?”
“Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.”