A Quotes
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“Ah romance, when you must stop accepting your own reality and start believing in someone else’s.”
“Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.’
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.”
Source: The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
“Ah,' said Fudge, who looked thoroughly disconcerted. 'Dumbledore. Yes. You - er - got our - er - message that the time and - er - place of the hearing had been changed, then?'
'I must have missed it,' said Dumbledore cheerfully. 'However, due to a lucky mistake I arrived at the Ministry three hours early, so no harm done.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.
'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.”
Source: Treasure Island
“Ah—sake, sake, sake—up to now I’ve lived for sake, and this is what it’s gotten me! Sake—devil or buddha, poison or curative?”
Source: For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary
“Ah, Sam, sighs Tom Spring to himself. These are your beginnings. And in your beginnings, my end! Oh how the recollections connect, each to each, as links in a chain!”
Source: Be My Wolff
“Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.”
Source: A Most Scandalous Proposal
“Ah! Sei qui...»
E mi prese per mano. Ma ancora si tormentava:
«Hai avuto torto. Avrai dispiacere. Sembrerò morto e non sarà vero...»
Io stavo zitto.
«Capisci? E' troppo lontano. Non posso portare appresso il mio corpo. E' troppo pesante».
Io stavo zitto.
«Ma sarà come una vecchia scorza abbandonata. Non sono tristi le vecchie scorze...»
Io stavo zitto.
Si scoraggiò un poco. Ma fece ancora uno sforzo:
«Sara' bello, sai. Anch'io guarderò le stelle. Tutte le stelle saranno dei pozzi con una carrucola arrugginita. Tutte le stelle mi verseranno da bere...»
Io stavo zitto.
«Sarà talmente divertente! Tu avrai cinquecento milioni di sonagli, io avrò cinquecento milioni di fontane...»
E tacque anche lui perché piangeva.”
Source: The Little Prince
“Ah, Senhor, os dias correm vagarosos como caramujos, os anos não perduram mais que uma fagulha, o passado não acaba nunca.”
Source: O albatroz azul
“Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"
"I'm pretty sure I never said that.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot.”
Source: The Kamogawa Food Detectives
“Ah, Shiraz! What a town! The rose gardens, the nightingales. Paradise. You know, I got a hold of some wine while I was there. I'll never forget that bouquet." Julian cleared his throat. " 'Rose petals let us scatter and fill the cup with red wine, the firmaments let us shatter and come with a new design.' "
He lifted his glass in a toast to Hafez's ode to the fermented grape.
Marjan met his toast with her own glass.”
Source: Rosewater and Soda Bread
“Ah, shit. I’m going to have to ask Father for a new heart.”
Source: Crowned a Traitor
“Ah, shit. She’s been crying. This is not good.
I swear to God, a girl crying is fucking blackmail. It just makes you feel so damn guilty – no matter if you’ve done anything wrong or not – and have the bizarre urge to make her feel better.”
Source: Someone Like You
“Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune,’ said the giant.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Ah si je pouvais moins l'aimer, ne pas être si maladroite, si anxieuse de lui plaire, si je pouvais montrer de l'indifférence. Alors elle m'aimerait, j'en suis sure. Mais on dirait que je lui pèse...Que de fois ne m'a-t-elle pas reproché de l'étouffer?”
Source: De la part de la princesse morte
“Ah ! si quelqu'un venait me dire : Sire, vous serez débarrassé de tous vos ennemis à la fois, et demain il n'en restera pas un pour vous reprocher la mort des autres, ah ! alors je ne dis pas !”
Source: La reine Margot, Tome I
“Ah, sir! our manners were formed from our different fortunes, not our different age. Wealth gave a loose to your youth, and poverty put a restraint upon mine.”
Source: The Conscious Lovers: A Comedy In Five Acts
“Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.”
Source: The Vorbing
“Ah, sloboda, sloboda! Čak i sam nagovještaj, čak slaba nada na njenu mogućnost daje krila duši, zar ne?”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Ah, so happily we live,
Without hate among those with hate,
Among people who hate
We live without hate.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“Ah! stir well your fancy, fear not to tell me those deep heart secrets now,look the sun goes down the high hills and by the tree shades we sat,in adored pose;along side the lake we sat,kissed by the winds nigh.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Ah, stories," he drawled as he resumed his seat. "I do love a good story." He leaned towards her, and she resisted the urge to scoot further away. He clinked their glasses together and then leaned back. She took a small sip. "And tell me, my sweet wife, what do the other Gods whisper about me when they are high on the mountains of Olympus?”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up.”
Source: The Lockharts
“Ah, such lovely, rustic beauty, like that of a simple white clover."
?
"It may be that I was born to meet you here today, my sweet. Would you care to join me at my auberge so we may chat the night away?"
"Eh? Umm... I-I...”
Source: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 3
“Ah, summer! The season when worry steps aside, delight takes over, and every day is as good as the amount of time spent outdoors.
It's a chance to swim past the breakers, take outdoor showers, hold court from a pool float, or rely on nothing but your wits, a pineapple, rum, and a blender to make the most of an afternoon. When the only imperative is to unwind, unplug, and open up to a day of possibilities, you know you're going to have fun.”
Source: Summer: A Cookbook: Inspired Recipes for Lazy Days and Magical Nights
“Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done.
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.”
Source: Songs of Experience
“Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.”
Source: Trainspotting
“Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!”
“Ah, sweetheart, what are you doing?”
“I think that’s pretty obvious. I’m witch-handling your orgasm-giver.”
Source: Of Deception and Divinity
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison.”
Source: Fairytales for Wilde Girls
“Ah, Tania, nerede şimdi senin o sıcak yarığın, o kalın ve ağır jartiyerlerin, yumuşak ve dolgun uylukların? On beş santim uzunluğunda bir kemik var kamışımda. Dölümle doldurup ütüleyeceğim amındaki her kırışıklığı, Tania. Karnında sancıyla ve rahmin ters yüz edilmiş halde göndereceğim seni Sylvester’a.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Ah, ter a evidência ácida do milagre que sou, de como infinitamente é necessário que eu esteja vivo, e ver depois, em fulgor, que tenho de morrer.”
Source: Aparição
“Ah, thank you,' said Ford. He and Arthur took their jynnan tonnyx. Arthur sipped his, and was surprised to discover it tasted very like a whisky and soda.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.”
Source: The Little Prince
“Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Ah, that little anthill! Everyone busy with his own affairs, crossing each other's path, elbowing each other aside, sometimes even trampling on each other. That's the way it is, sometimes they even trample on each other...”
Source: The Women at the Pump
“Ah, that’s just sean nós singing and dancing. Something to do around the pub of an evening.”
“Ah, the ancient language of sarcasm. How it suits you."
"Why thank you, petal. It is one of my many talents, and I happen to be fluent in the language." I dazzled him with my smile.
"You need to give me a manly nickname."
"You haven't given me any reason to give you one yet."
"That's harsh.”
Source: She-Wolf
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair
Of not being able to express
With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,
The bleeding of my heart.”
Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
“Ah, the boo. The boo is the most maligned, gossiped about, ridiculed figure in the pantheon of prison characters. Boo, which is short for the street term "booty call," is the casual girlfriend, the cheap feel in the sally port, the temporary object of someone's affections (although most boos don't realize the impermanence of their positions).”
“Ah, the days when your desktop had less than half the memory on your current phone.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”
Source: Trouble On The Heath: A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel
“Ah, the faint grain of sand, the merciless hound at our heels, the spoke of the season's wheel”
Source: The Dawn of Yangchen
“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!
To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!
What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable!
I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.
I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,
Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.
I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.
I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.
It’s too late to be at either of the two meetings where I should have been at the same time,
Deliberately at the same time...
No matter, I’ll stay here dreaming verses and smiling in italics.
This spectator aspect of life is so amusing!
I can’t even light the next cigarette... If it’s an action,
It can wait for me, along with the others, in the nonmeeting called life.”
Source: Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
“Ah.' The godmother smiled then, and cracks ran across her skin from the motion, like a plaster wall falling apart. As Marra watched in horror, a chip of skin fell from her cheekbone. There was no blood under it, nothing but cool, brown bone. 'Yes, Agnes, will you pass me my teacup? It seems that I am about to die, and I would like a little more tea.'
...
She tried to press it in to the godmother's hands, but they were only bone, folded politely in to a pile of dust.
...
'Thank you,' said the godmother against the rim of the teacup, and then she fell apart. Marra took a step back but there was something oddly peaceful about it, about bones sinking down in to the robes and the dust pattering down around them. There had been very little flesh left to the godmother, only skin and skeleton and iron will. Her robes stayed in the perfect triangle, stiff with gold brocade.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“Ah, the Irish. We’re a hopeless lot.”
Source: The Family Corleone
“Ah, the Lunar New Year —a time of vibrant traditions, sumptuous feasts, and ancient wisdom. Amidst the festive dragon dances and glittering lanterns, it whispers profound life lessons. Like the patient blooming of cherry blossoms, it teaches resilience in adversity. The red envelopes, symbols of generosity, remind us of the joy of giving. And in the gathering of loved ones, it celebrates the power of community and connection”
“Ah, the nipples of men, so tender; such a key to torment and ecstacy; how he writhed as she twisted then ever so gently, her tongue daring in and out of his mouth.”
Source: The Mummy
“ah,the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once. It was so very long ago, I've nearly forgotten it. Tell me, does the sun still shine, or is that just my dreamy recollection'
'Surely your studies aren't that bad.”
Source: The Way of Kings