I Ought Quotes

147 I Ought quotes by 123 unique authors

I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin. — Henry James
I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do. — T.H. White
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the… — Raymond Chandler
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,… — Ann Radcliffe
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what… — Franz Kafka
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel... — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does… — J M Coetzee
Smarmy little prig,” Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When I get him… — Cassandra Clare
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me… — Matthew Arnold
The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but… — Chris Claremont
It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening… — Grant Morrison
I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee.… — Judith McNaught
I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.” “I would think the… — Julia Quinn
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. — C.S. Lewis
Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I… — Rachel Caine
I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to… — Deanna Raybourn
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. — Ava Gardner
I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel. — John Fowles
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to… — Fanny Burney
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize… — Stephen Fry
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child… — Christopher Paolini
She went back to Shane and settles in on his lap again, arm around his neck. His circled her waist. "I thought you had to… — Rachel Caine

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