OUGHT in Classic Quotes

1  That it ought not to be attempted.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40

2  Indeed, Jane, you ought to believe me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

3  I mention it, because it is the living which I ought to have had.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

4  As it principally concerns yourself, you ought to know its contents.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57

5  It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

6  It was in The Times and The Courier, I know; though it was not put in as it ought to be.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

7  But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose that Bingley was the person meant.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33

8  He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

9  I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

10  Miss Bennet," replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, "you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

11  You may possibly wonder why all this was not told you last night; but I was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

12  I have nothing to say against him; he is a most interesting young man; and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

13  The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

14  She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

15  Wickham was not at all more distressed than herself, but his manners were always so pleasing, that had his character and his marriage been exactly what they ought, his smiles and his easy address, while he claimed their relationship, would have delighted them all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51

16  She inquired into Charlotte's domestic concerns familiarly and minutely, gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all; told her how everything ought to be regulated in so small a family as hers, and instructed her as to the care of her cows and her poultry.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

17  They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4