O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.”
“Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.”
“Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.”
Source: The Joyful Heart: Through the Year with Watchman Nee
“Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.”
“Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.”
Source: Plays: Restless heart. Time remembered. Ardèle. Mademoiselle Colombe. The lark
“Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.”
“Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.”
Source: Ghost: A Novel
“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
Source: Peter Camenzind: A Novel
“Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.”
Source: The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions
“Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.”
Source: Country Girl
“Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.”
Source: Mortal Suns
“Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.”
Source: Evergreen
“Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
“Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.”
Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.”
“Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.”
“Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.”
“Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.”
“Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done-now I'm stressed." "You can't! You're the stable one!”
Source: Halo
“Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.”
Source: Anne's House of Dreams
“Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
“Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.”
“Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.”
Source: The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power
“Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.”
Source: Night Road
“Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
Source: Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus
“Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.”
“Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature!
Have I not worshipped thee with such a love
As never mortal man before displayed?
Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation,
And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways
As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?”
Source: Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ... With a sketch of his life, and selections from his correspondence. Edited by his brother John Davy
“Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?”
Source: Poems
“Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.”
“Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
“Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.”
“Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.”
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.”
“Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.”
“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”
“Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.”
Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)
“Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.”
“Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.”
Source: Dracula
“Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.”
“Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.”
“Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”
“Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.”
Source: Cautionary Tales for Children
“Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.”
Source: The Awakening