O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.”
“Oh, you misunderstand the sagacity of my decision. It wasn’t for my benefit that you atoned. It was for yours. That expiation removed the encumbrance from your heart and mind. The gods blessed us with such wisdom as a means to unburden our spirit when we’ve fallen short of their expectations.”
Source: Kurintor Nyusi
“Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.”
“Oh, you must've read about me. I'm renowned. It's a little story from Greece. Hades, god of the underworld? I know they must still be teaching about me in school, even if they gloss over the fun bits.”
Source: Persephone
“Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!”
“Oh, you’re always there. You’re my seventh sense.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“Oh, you're good."
Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”
Source: Darkest Before Dawn
“Oh, you're here already," she said, taken by surprise and feeling unready, incompetent, old, as she always felt with other people. Alone, she only felt old when she was overtired or ill. Maybe living alone was the right thing for her after all.”
Source: Four Ways to Forgiveness
“Oh, you’re reading your secret book. Sorry,” he said. Though his face didn’t show any contrition Raziel knew he meant it. Hoeru was close to Raziel’s age and they’d been roommates for years, ever since Dominic brought the changeling in. He was probably Raziel’s closest friend. Reading the changeling could be difficult but Hoeru was always candid with his words.
“Secret book?”
“Is it not a secret?”
“No! I just don’t like people knowing about it.”
Hoeru narrowed his eyes and cocked his head.
“Isn’t that what a secret is?”
“No. Well… yes. Kind of. It’s complicated.”
“Everything human is complicated. So what’s in your not-secret secret book?”
Source: Fate's Pawn
“Oh, you savvy conversationalist, you know it! Communication is like a magnet for connection—pulling in all the witty banter, charming dialogue, and engaging repartees. It's the language of attraction, the charm offensive, that turns heads and keeps the sparks flying! So, let those words dance on your tongue, and watch how your irresistible charisma steals the show!”
“Oh, you smell delicious! What've you been baking today?"
"Roasted strawberries and rhubarb for a mascarpone ice cream. Lemon tart pastry, mint meringues, sun-dried tomato rolls, honey cake.”
Source: All Stirred Up
“Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?”
“Oh you tender ones, there are times when you should
Enter into that breath which was not intended for you,
Let Him part Himself on your cheeks, -
How he trembles behind you, comes together again.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“Oh, you think everyone's interesting. That's because you're a Red. I don't. I believe that quite a lot of people were just manufactured when God was thinking of something else.”
Source: Paradise Postponed
“Oh you two look delicious," Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go!”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Oh, you want me to lie still while you check me out? Damn, Red, if I'd have known that earlier I would've been horizontal already.”
Source: Unwritten Rules
“Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Oh, you were scared silly," said Beatty, "for I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books
you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think
they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in
the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Oh, you were there at the time that I was forming an opinion of you. It didn’t happen by accident.”
“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.”
“Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?”
“Oh you whom I have loved, farewell. It is not my fault that the human body cannot survive three days without drinking. I did not believe I was so imprisoned by the sources. I did not suspect such a short autonomy. It is believed that man can march straight ahead. It is believed that man is free... One does not see the rope that binds him to the well, that binds him like an umbilical cord to the belly of the earth. If he takes one more step, he dies.”
Source: Wind, Sand and Stars
“Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!”
“Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.”
“Oh Young Frankenstein - that's right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I mean, you know, it - they just keep going on and on and on - Mission: Impossible. And, you know, I think that the writers are having so much fun now with them that, you know, half the time, you know, people are just sitting around saying - trying to think of what's a great movie to copy.”
“Oh youth, why did you leave me, to fend for myself against time?”
“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”
“Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.”
Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel
“Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;
From morning to night he's so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and good humour!”
“Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.”
Source: The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories
“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
“Oh! blame not the bard.”
“Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton
“Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”
Source: Best Ghost Stories
“Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners.”
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Oh! death will find me, long before I tire
Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and loneliness and mire
Of the last land!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?”
“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”
Source: Beulah
“Oh! Everything I loved!”
“Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.”
Source: Monologues and lyrics
“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”
“Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!”
“Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!”
“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”
Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein
“Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!”
Source: Life and Journal of Rev. Dav. Brainerd