But even if I had been inclined--if I had had no principles, I should have been just clever enough to know better than to run any risk of the kind you suggest.
Well, but you ought to know better than to quote an author you have not read," he informed her.
But Steve, he be more used to mixing up with the quality folks and such things, and he do know better nor I how to carry his self in parts when the ground be thick on them.
She's old enough to know better than to ask to be taken to such places.
Why, Master William do know better nor to do such a thing, I can tell you.
Do you think I don't know better than to send people all the way across the ocean for nothing?
Do you think I didn't know better than to come up to this mountain top without bringing along something to live upon while I am here?
When you are old enough to know better, and the young conceit wears out of you, you may be sorry, Miss Andalusia, for your wonderful cleverness.
Over the sea they began to look, in a discontented quietude; as the manner of young mortals is before they begin to know better, and with great ideas moving them.
She said that no doubt it was bred from the wars for sailors to talk so bravely; but that I ought to know better--with a fie, and a sigh, and a fie again.
He told Stanley he would return in two or three weeks, perhaps sooner,--but I know better.
You mean well; but you ought to know better than to expect to deceive me.
This propensity on the part of men who, Mavis thought, ought to know better, occasioned her much disquiet.
And what with the undercutting and all, on the part of those who ought to know better, it makes it 'ard to make both ends meet.
Girls who're 'on the game' who drink ought to know better, and don't deserve sympathy.
Remember of what importance you are to society, and do not allow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsiderately told you by people who ought to know better.
A body 'ud think they'd know better nor to act so unrespectable-like.
He had a right to know better, an' not go forgettin' himself and his place altogether.
Bedad, Mike 'ud know better nor do anythin' that senseless an' mischeevious.
Sure, I've no call at all to be frettin'; I have a right to know better, so I have.
Ladies may entertain such sentiments, but a man ought to know better.
You ought to know better than to make me those little compliments.
One would have thought you had sense to know better, Brandon," said he, raging about the breakfast-room with the skirts of his light morning coat held out behind him.
She has not gone: I know better," roared the Squire.
Hill ought to know better than to come frightening me at night like this.
You ought to know betterthan to pull a bluff like that on me.
Jim is sure old enough to know better 'n to behave hisself.
Being of age, you ought to know better, but being of age, you can do what you want to with your own.
You ought to know better than to ask me to sell out myself and my partners.
I know better, now, why something called me over to Hue and Cry last summer.
I had my orders from the Missus before I left town, and I know better than to go home without you.
Though he was from Missouri, he had lived long enough in the high hills to know better than to judge any man altogether by outward appearances.
You are thinking that it is change of environment, wider horizons, and all that, which has changed you, Montague; but I know better.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know better" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
