Why should honour outlive honesty? Othello, v. 2.
Why should I make a shadow where God makes all so bright? Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should not conscience have vacation / 20 As well as other courts o' th' nation? Butler.
Why should the Garment of Praise destroy the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old woman cannot sing and cry at the same moment ... one emotion destroys another. Prof. Drummond.
Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, / Where thrift may follow fawning. Ham., iii. 2.
Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon a thing which makes thee not one whit the better or the worse? Thomas à Kempis.
Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An altar is in each man's cot, / A church in every grove that spreads / Its living roof above our heads. Wordsworth.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, / 25 Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh? Keble.
Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart wants to repose. Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should we have any serious disgust at kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses of the house. There is the hearth, after all,—and the settle, and the fagots, and the kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart, the left ventricle, the very vital part of the house. Thoreau.