A Quotes
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“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.”
“Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Ah! What avails the classic bent
And what the cultured word,
Against the undoctored incident
That actually occurred?
And what is Art whereto we press
Through paint and prose and rhyme-
When Nature in her nakedness
Defeats us every time?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.”
Source: The dramatic works of Edward Young
“Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.”
“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
“Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.”
“Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion”
“Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.”
Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
“Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.”
Source: A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.”
“Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !”
Source: The Sayings of Jonathan Swift
“Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.”
“Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.”
Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”
Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.”
Source: Bossypants
“Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!”
“Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.”
“Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.”
Source: Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy
“Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.”
“Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté.
Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.”
“Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.”
“Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.”
Source: The Perseids and Other Stories
“Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!”
Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.”
“Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.”
“Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.”
Source: Bittersweet rain
“Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.”
Source: The Loony-bin Trip
“Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.”
Source: Ascending
“Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.”
“Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.”
Source: Fathers and Children
“Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!”
Source: Carmen Dog
“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
Source: Sad cypress
“Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.”
“Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?”
Source: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
“Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.”
“Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.”
Source: In the Winter Dark
“Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate”
“Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”
“Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.”
“Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.”
Source: Waterland
“Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
And I must think a little of the past:
When I was ten I told a stinking lie
That got a black boy whipped.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976