A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray”
Source: Dorothy Parker
“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.”
“Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.”
“Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.”
“Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).”
Source: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore -
For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.”
“Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.”
Source: Ask the Dust
“Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.”
Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series
“Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.”
Source: Ranting Again
“Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 2)
“Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words
“Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.”
“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.”
“Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.”
“Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.”
“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
“Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.”
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.”
Source: Experiment with Death
“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'”
“Ah, grief makes us precise!”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.”
Source: Bartleby, The Scrivener
“Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!”
“Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.”
“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”
Source: Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
“Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.”
Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!”
Source: The Journal of My Other Self
“Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!”
“Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.”
“Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.”
“Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.”
“Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,
That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!
If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,
His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.”
“Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!”
Source: Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!”
Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love
“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”
Source: The Loch
“Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.”
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
Source: Night Thoughts, etc
“Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.”
Source: New Irish Comedies
“Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Ah, I don't do interviews, really.”
“Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.”
“Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...”