O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, to know God's private address.”
“Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?”
“Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet it is ours,
and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.”
Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems
“Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.”
“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!”
“Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.”
“Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.”
“Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!”
“Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)”
Source: Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires
“Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead
“Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!”
“Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart.”
Source: The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
“Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.”
“Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?”
Source: Young Miles
“Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.”
Source: The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.”
Source: Fool
“Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.”
Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962
“Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.”
“Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.”
“Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.”
Source: Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s
“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
“Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse”
“Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.”
“Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper”
Source: Strong Poison
“Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.”
“Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.”
“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.”
“Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.”
“Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.”
“Oh, well. At least my blood is flowing.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.”
“Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.”
“Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.”
“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.”
“Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.”
“Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!”
“Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and throughout the eternities. May we commit to share a knowledge of this magnificent work, personally or through missionaries, with our friends and neighbors that they may join this kingdom of God on earth, and receive the consummate, eternal blessings available to them.”
“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.”
“Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings”
“Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.”
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”
“Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne ...
“Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
“Oh, what a void there is in things.”