O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.”
“O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.”
“O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?”
Source: The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“O, had I but followed the arts!”
“O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.”
“O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.”
Source: Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc
“O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.”
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh”
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”
“O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
but, baby, where are you?”
Source: Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
“O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!”
“O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!”
“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”
“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems
“O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.”
“O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites, have given up themselves! How their names sparkle! How rich their very ashes are! How they will count up in heaven!”
“O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?”
“O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.”
“O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1
“O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.”
Source: Abigail Adams: Letters
“O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”
“O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.”
“O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature,
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One.”
“O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.”
Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
“O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!”
Source: The New Life
“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”
“O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”
Source: The Days Gone by and Other Poems
“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)”
“O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.”
“O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.”
“O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
Source: King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare
“O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”
“O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
“O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.”
“O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.”
Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
“O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play.”
Source: The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others
“O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a poor body
Gang about his biziness!”
Source: Songs
“O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.”
Source: Cymbeline
“O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.”
“O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.”
“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”
Source: Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies
“O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.”
“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“O, my luve is like a red, red rose.”
“O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven”
“O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.”
“O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.”