O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.”
“Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.”
Source: The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)
“Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.”
“Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.”
“Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.”
“Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”
Source: Gossip Girl
“Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.”
“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”
“Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!”
“Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.”
“Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Oh, don't worry! I'm always okay!”
“Oh, don’t lie, Harry,” she said impatiently. “Ron and Ginny say you’ve been hiding from everyone since you got back from St. Mungo’s.” “They do, do they?” said Harry, glaring at Ron and Ginny. Ron looked down at his feet but Ginny seemed quite unabashed. “Well, you have!” she said. “And you won’t look at any of us!” “It’s you lot who won’t look at me!” said Harry angrily. “Maybe you’re taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other,” suggested Hermione, the corners of her mouth twitching.”
“Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!”
“Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)
“Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then we’ll talk.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!”
Source: Beulah
“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?”
“OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!”
“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”
Source: The House at Pooh Corner
“Oh, Elizabeth," he murmured, leaning down to press a gentle kiss on her mouth, "I love you so much. You must believe me." "I believe you," she said softly, "because in your eyes, I see what I feel in my heart.”
“Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.' 'Do we have the right plan?' 'Not yet.' 'Do we have any plan?' 'Not yet.”
“Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.”
“Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.”
“Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.”
“Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.”
“Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.”
“Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.”
“Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.”
“Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day,
And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,
And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,
While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,
"Polly!-Polly!-
The cows are in the corn!
Oh, where's Polly?"”
Source: Lyrics
“Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly”
“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
Source: 20,000 leagues under the sea
“Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.”
“Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.”
Source: Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book
“Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!”
Source: DON JUAN
“Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!”
“Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.”
“Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.”
“Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.”
“Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle Bra. "GPS," Ranger said to Morelli. "Probably I can find her breast without it," Morelli said. "But it's good to know there's a navigational system on board if I need it.”
“Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?”
“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”
Source: The Dark Highlander
“Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.”