O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?”
“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”
“O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?”
Source: Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man
“O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?”
“O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.”
Source: The Flight of the Mind
“O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?”
“O, wicked love,” she thought, “that has so many unnamed components.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.”
“O Wilhelm! the hermit's cell, his sackcloth, and girdle of thorns would be luxury and indulgence compared with what I suffer. Adieu! I see no end to this wretchedness except the grave.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped
“O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.”
Source: Poetical works
“O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!”
Source: The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative
“O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!”
Source: The Importance of Living
“O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”
“O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.”
“O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.”
“O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!”
“O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.”
“O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blacken your eyes?
Why do you remove the hair on your legs
and draw them into your brows?
Why do you hold your breath
lest your stomach show
and hold your fart
lest they know
that you’re a human? O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you straighten your hair
to curl it next
and pretend to orgasm
so they think you enjoyed the sex?
Why do you dumb yourself down
and push your breasts up?
Why do you smile when you’re told to
and love when you don’t want to?
When? When
will you stop, woman?
Father says natural is beautiful
but that is doubtful
for what does father know
he’s only a fellow.”
“O woman shapely as a swan.”
“O woman, thou art my imperfection!”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“O woman
who is not separate from us
who is chained beaten strangled
this song is for you
O woman
who is not separate from the homeland
who is oppressed silenced persecuted
this fury is for you
O woman
who rages against this regime
who marches resists protests
this prayer is for you
O woman
whose wild tresses
are tied with a noose
this cry is for you
we rise together for you
O Mahsa
from your blood
poppies will grow
this revolution is for you”
“O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”
“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
“O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.”
“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.”
Source: Songs of the Sun-lands
“O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!”
Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas
“O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.”
Source: Men and women
“O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.”
“O Word of God incarnate . . .
It is the golden casket
Where gems of truth are stored;
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Thee, the Living Word.”
“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!”
“O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”
Source: Early Poems
“O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.”
Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition
“O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.”
“O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.”
“O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
“O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.”
“O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!”
“O wretched state! o bosom black as death!”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!”
Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“O ye by wandering tempest sown
'Neath every alien star,
Forget not whence the breath was blown
That wafted you afar!
For ye are still her ancient seed
On younger soil let fall—
Children of Britain's island-breed,
To whom the Mother in her need
Perchance may one day call.”
“O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.”
“O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!”