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Ought Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
- All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak…
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the…
- I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen