O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”
“O, pleasant is the welcome kiss
When day's dull round is o'er;
And sweet the music of the step
That meets us at the door.”
Source: THE CULPRIT FAY
“O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“O, reason not the need!”
Source: King Lear
“O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!”
“O, she is the antidote to desire.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
“O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.”
“O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?”
Source: The Complete Angler
“O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)
“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven”
“O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!”
“O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable”
“O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena”
“O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!”
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.”
“O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.”
“O, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
“O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due.”
Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
Bare long after the rest are green;
But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
. . . .
But by and by, when the flowers grow few
And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
Out she comes in her matron grace
With the purple myriads of her race;
Full of plenty from root to crown,
Showering plenty her feet adown.
While far over head hang gorgeously
Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
For the best grows highest, always highest,
Upon the mulberry-tree.”
“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.”
“O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!”
Source: Shamrocks
“O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest,
When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.”
“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”
“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet
“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!”
Source: Festus: a poem
“O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.”
“O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.”
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)
“O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.”
“O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest”
Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)
“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
“O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”
“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare...
“O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns Part Five
“O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.”
“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”
Source: Tempest
“O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.”
“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.”
“O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!”
“O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.”
Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing
“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
“O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!”
Source: Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...
“O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?”
Source: Henry VI
“O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)