Oates may refer to:
- People
- Oates (surname)
- Places and buildings
- Oates Coast, coastal area of Antarctica
- Oates Building, historic building in Florida
- Oates, High Laver, Essex, England, the place where John Locke spent his last years
Famous quotes containing the word oates:
“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Nothing is accidental in the universe—this is one of my Laws of Physics—except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
—Lawrence Oates (1880–1912)