Quotes of: Ought Keyword

God got it all wrong Of who ought to be wearing dicks and balls

Karan Patade

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Marilyn Monroe

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Robert Southey

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Saxby Chambliss

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Mike Huckabee

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Charles McCarry

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Ben Nelson

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

George Nethercutt

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

James Madison

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Jimmy Johnston: [to Gould] They ought to put your mouth in a circus.

Cinderella Man