O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”
“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”
“Oh, what company good poets are!”
“Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.”
“Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.”
Source: Black Oxen
“Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.”
Source: The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.”
“Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!”
“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6
“Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.”
“Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.”
“Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.”
“Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.”
“Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?”
Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
“Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?”
“Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.”
“Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.”
Source: Berlin Stories
“Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.”
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.”
“Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?”
Source: Dracula: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?”
Source: The poetical works of the Ettrick shepherd: including the Queen's wake, Pilgrims of the sun, Mador of the moor, Mountain bard, &c. &c
“Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.”
“Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.”
“Oh, wise young judge.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”
Source: The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill
“Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.”
Source: Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems
“Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!”
“Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!”
“Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!”
Source: Penny Candy
“Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?”
“Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me”
“Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun.”
“Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.”
“Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one”
“Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)”
Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
“Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.”
“Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.”
“Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!”
“Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.”
“Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.”
“Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !”
“Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.”