A Quotes
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“Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”
“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”
“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
“Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.”
“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
Source: She: A History of Adventure
“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!”
“Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!”
“Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!”
“Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.”
“Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing and bellows so loudly, making a commotion down here among us, in a perfectly pedestrian way ... But the other one, the eternal one, is all around and above us, like a landscape that surrounds us and the blue sky that gives us light.”
Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.”
Source: Frankenstein: The Original Story
“Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!”
“Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!”
“Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?”
“Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!”
Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence
“Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”
“Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.”
“Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May:
Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
Where the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way;
Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,
Waiting for the May.”
Source: Poems
“Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!”
Source: Faust: Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem
“Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -”
“Ah! never shall the land forget.”
“Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
“Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.”
“Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?”
“Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.”
“Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.”
“Ah! somehow life is bigger after all
Than any painted angel could we see
The God that is within us!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.”
Source: THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.
“Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.”
Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war
“Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.”
“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.”
Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
“Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!”
Source: The Eleven Comedies - Complete
“Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.”
“Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.”
“Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!”
“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.”
Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works
“Ah! the year is slowly dying,
And the wind in tree-top sighing,
Chant his requiem.
Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
High in air wild birds are calling,
Nature's solemn hymn.”
“Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?”
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.”
Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.”
“Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems