Quotes of: Ought Keyword

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

Howard Hawks

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Anna and the French Kiss

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

Play With A Tiger

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

Joshua Lederberg

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Pablo Casals

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Paul Cezanne

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Pablo Picasso

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Robert Benchley

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Sharon Kay Penman

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Titus Lucretius Carus

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Thomas Fuller

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Laurence J. Peter

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Richard M. Nixon

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.

Michael W. Smith

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Mark Twain

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Charles Wagner

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Mary Wollstonecraft