A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ah, stupid, you know I love you, too.”
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
“Ah, sunflower, 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 sunflower wishes to go.”
“Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.”
“Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.”
Source: Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes
“Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?”
“Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!”
Source: The Sufistic Quatrains
“Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret?”
“Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?”
Source: Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard
“Ah, tell them they are men!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
“Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.”
“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.”
“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!”
Source: My Brilliant Career
“Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.”
“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.”
“Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.”
“Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.”
“Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.”
“Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!”
“Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.”
“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!”
Source: Endgame and Act Without Words
“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”
Source: I Never Met a Kid I Liked
“Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!”
Source: An Edith Wharton treasury
“Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?”
“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”
Source: Tortilla Flat
“Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.”
“Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.”
“Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?”
Source: The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]
“Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.”
“Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.”
“Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
The burdens laid upon our mortal being
Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.”
“Ah, there are no children nowadays.”
“Ah, there are no longer any children!”
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.”
“Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!”
“Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go without getting possessed. It was an interesting time to be Apollite or Daimon. But that was before we discovered civilization and modern conveniences. Before the human world developed enough to where we could exist at night under the pretense of being one of them. Apollites owning businesses and houses. Daimons playing Nintendo. What is this world coming to? (Thanatos)”
“Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!”
Source: Poems
“Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.”