O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Oh! how many times we die before death!”
“Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”
“Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”
“Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.”
“Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto Jesus.' Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the gospel? Can the world die for you? Can the world reconcile you to the Father? Can the world advance you to the kingdom of heaven? As Christ is all in all, so let him be the full and complete subject of our desire, and hope, and faith, and love, and joy; let him be in your thoughts the first in the morning, and the last at night.”
Source: Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel, Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, as Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last
“Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the Gospel? Can the world die for you?”
Source: Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel, Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, as Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last
“Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!”
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.”
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
“Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.”
“Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
“Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!”
Source: Poems
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.”
Source: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
“Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.”
Source: Letters of Eugénie de Guérin
“Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.”
“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
. . . .
To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?”
“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!”
Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary
“Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”
“Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.”
“Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!”
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above.”
Source: Mother Stories
“Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume
“Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.”
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :
“Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.”
Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia
“Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.”
Source: The Confession of a Child of the Century
“Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away.”
Source: A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell
“Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!”
Source: The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem
“Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.”
Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary
“Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!”
Source: Fire and Hemlock
“Oh! she was good as she was fair.
None-none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are,
To know her was to love her.”
Source: Poems
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.”
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”
Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
“Oh! that fear
When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly
“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty!”
Source: The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry
“Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume