Betters

We are happy, and contented: and if we change, we shall be discontented and unhappy, as so many of what they call our betters are. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

"The envy and resentment of your betters is very clear from your weak arguments." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The envy and resentment of your betters is very clear from your weak arguments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of these days, flirting with my betters is going to get me in trouble. ❋ ZenMondo Wormser (2007)

Thy toime fur saucin 'thy betters is past an' gone. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Many a one had tried to pump Patsy, -- the people had an inordinate curiosity about their "betters" -- and of late tongues had been very busy with the return of Mrs. Comerford and the reconciliation with Lady O'Gara: also with ❋ Katharine Tynan (1896)

That was the reason why they and their children had been all their lives on the verge of starvation and nakedness, whilst their 'betters' -- who did nothing but the thinking -- went clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. ❋ Robert Tressell (1890)

A cleverly constructed and vivid collection of memoirs with flashes of brilliant wit, this title betters even Dancing ❋ Unknown (2009)

At last, when, in one or two; instances, the answer of the Scottish almost approached to sullenness, the minstrel remarked it, observing that there was ever some mischief on foot when the people of this country could not find a civil answer to their betters, which is usually so ready among them, and that they appeared to be making a strong muster for the service of Palm Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And if I understand not what Thou meanest by that phrase, let my betters, that is, those of more understanding than myself, make better use of it, according as ❋ Unknown (1999)

For instance: The man who imitates his betters is the easiest man to make a monkey of. ❋ Noah [pseud.] Lott (N/A)

The betters are the factious noise of the alley, or the gamesters beadsmen that pray for them. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

So long as they are humanely treated, it is, we may infer, a benefit for them to be commanded; and the contribution their labour makes toward rational life in their betters is the highest dignity they can attain, and should be prized by them as a sufficient privilege. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

I hope that some of his so-called betters had the good sense to feel ashamed at being taught manners by a working boy. ❋ Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Of Gilwell (1899)

'You go this day month, Miss,' she says, 'a-listening at doors when your betters is a-talking. ❋ Unknown (1891)

The idea that they are really human creatures, naturally absolutely the same as their so-called betters, naturally equal in every way, naturally different from them only in those ways in which their so-called superiors differ from each other, and inferior to them only because they have been deprived of education, culture and opportunity -- you know as well as I do that they have all been taught to regard that idea as preposterous. ❋ Robert Tressell (1890)

"Dinna miscall your betters, Brockburn: why will ye not credit our existence, man?" ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

As I have endeavoured to show in this volume, the deference of the old electors to their betters was the only way in which our old system could be maintained. ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)

Dave: [Google] is better. [Sally]: [Yahoo] is betterer. ❋ CakeEater1Million (2008)

Gail: Hey Scott, [Corby] is ace! Scott: No Gail, [I think you'll find] that Corby is even [betterer]! ❋ Dunney Boy (2016)

[Damit] Skyler, how do you [botch] an simple introductory email? Be [BETTERER]! ❋ King Of The Moment (2018)

[Simple] acts to make [the world] a betterful [place]. ❋ "See You In Another Life" (2010)

Me: “My girlfriend keeps [choosing] the outfits that I wear to work, and she also [combs] [my hair] every morning.” Friend: “Yeah, she’s bettering you...” ❋ SaucyBdog (2019)

Hym "Oh, I'm not much of an [orator] but you know what they say about orators: 'As long as they are poor the state and the people can only praise their [uprightness]; but once they are fattened on the public's funds, the conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people, and attack the democracy' ~ [Aristophanes]. Not that I'm the biggest fan of democracy... But I am an archetypal figure and multiple people have been intimated into the culture in their peripheral association to me. And, as a diagnostician, I'm like 2 for 2 over here. So, I wouldn't say 'better' but I'm sure I would do a pretty good job." 🤷 ❋ Hym Iam (2022)

for the [BETTERMENT] of [the team] , we stayed after doing [laps] ❋ Aye Roll (2010)

[I am] [on the better]. ❋ Dwitte (2017)

U better go get [ma] [cash] n [bring it] to me. ❋ Allahatopia (2018)

1. i betterized [my love life] by actually wearing [deodorant] 2. bro: my car is to slow. Me: why don't you betterize it with a [turbo]? ❋ Timmay!! (2014)