“Oh – what's the bloody point?”

— Kenneth Williams

Last diary entry, 14 April 1988.

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Kenneth Williams5

English actor and comedian 1926–1988

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Variant: Oh Blimey O‘Reilly's pantyhose... what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and—oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

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“You're awake," he said.
"Phresine is not," pointed out the queen.
"Oh?"
"You gave her lethium."
"She gave it to me first.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”

Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman

Source: The Third Policeman

“Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“Salem snorted. "The Vamp basically told her, 'I'm in a weird place in me life right now, and I need some space.' Of course, he told her that by pointing a bloody sword at her whilst bellowing, 'I forsake you!' in front of the whole kingdom.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Shadow's Claim

“Beyond a certain point - and that point is reached early - precision is what expressiveness depends on.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

'The Continuing Insult to the English Language' (The Monthly, May 2006)
Essays and reviews
Context: ... by now some of the editors and subeditors [on Fleet Street] are themselves products of the anti-educational orthodoxy by which expressiveness counts above precision. It would, if the two terms were separable. But they aren't. Beyond a certain point - and that point is reached early - precision is what expressiveness depends on.

“Oh, and just one more point that a lot of Americans don’t know. We’re so used to, ‘Oh colonialism,’ no, the Boers, the ones who are there, were there before the Zulus, they got there first. The Zulus came down like a hundred years later. I mean we are witnessing a straight out genocide.”

Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator

Coulter on South African ‘Genocide’: ‘No One Under Fifty Is Getting News from the Mainstream Media Anymore’
2018-04-05
Brietbart News
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/05/ann-coulter-south-african-genocide-white-farmers-breitbart-news-town-hall/
2018

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

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