“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Danny Tidwell (1984) American dancer
In response to critics and ballet fans who say Tidwell "sold-out" by auditioning on So You Think You Can Dance <br class="br">La Rocco Claudia. "TV Viewers Discover Dance, and the Debate Is Joined" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/dance/21revo.html?ref=dance#, The New York Times, September 21, 2007
Thomas Dekker (1572–1632) English dramatist and pamphleteer
Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”
Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 37
“O death, why art thou so long in coming?”
Robert-François Damiens (1715–1757) French domestic servant and attempted assassin
Attributed last words
Source: Frederic Rowland (1900). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women. Troy, New York: C. A. Brewster & Co.
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
The Greatness of God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”
William Blake book Songs of Experience
The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p
“O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Despondency.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
The only righteous judge art thou!”
Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) American writer