Y Quotes
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“Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.”
“Ye dinna ken whar frae? - I'll tell you whar frae - frae hell; sic thoughts are the cormorants that sit on the apple trees in the devil's kail-yard, and the souls o the damned are the carcasses they mak their meat o.”
Source: The Entail: or, The Lairds of Grippy
“Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d
The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds,
And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire and rifted Jove’s stout oak
With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck’d up
The pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ‘em forth
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.”
Source: The Tempest
“Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.”
“Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head”
“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise.”
“Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.”
“Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.”
“Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.”
“Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!”
“Ye had not yet sought yourselves; then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.”
“Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.”
“Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!”
“Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.”
Source: Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn
“Ye have taught me something I never understood."
"What? How to get rid of Parisian Pink Pecker Disease?”
Source: Bearing It All
“Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts,
How sang the angelic choir that day,
When from his tomb the imprisoned God,
Like the strong sunrise, broke away?”
Source: Hymns
“Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.”
Source: The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
“Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?”
“Ye just hit the Life with your Old Dream!”
“Ye ken, man laird, while I just dive richt to the bottom o a linn, and set doon there; ye'd think it was the inside o the Fairy Hill. Trooties, ye ken, and saumon, and they awfu pike, a comin round ye, and they bits o water weeds, waggin aboot like lairch trees in the blast. I mind ae time I stoppit doon nigh aboot half an hour. Maybe no just sae much, ye ken, but time gaes awfu quick when ye're at the bottom o a linn.”
Source: The Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham
“Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.”
“Ye Khaaki Kaar-E-Ashiyaane me masroof hogaya,
Ye mai ke is jaal me mashghool hogaya;
Jab khuli nazar dekh apne aap ko hairat me rehgaya,
Ye Fikr-E-Haal-E-Dil aur Khudi se mehroom rehgaya;”
“Ye know as well as I that I lost whatever heart I once had long ago,” Mick replied without emotion, a simple statement of fact. “If the babe lives, or if she dies, it makes no difference to me. I’ll still eat sweetmeats on the morrow and taste the sugar on me tongue, still f*ck women and feel the pleasure in me bollocks. And, Charlie—mark me well, now—I’ll still kill ye and laugh in yer ugly face as I do it.”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.”
“Ye know what me Sean used to say, God rest his soul? He said, 'A friend will help ye move, Katie, but a really good friend will help ye move a body.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
Once more your Captain calls to you;
Come to his last review!”
Source: Five Books of Song
“Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.”
“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”
Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand
“Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.”
Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.”
“Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.”
“Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”
Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
“Ye may kiss me again if ye like, husband, for I promise to enjoy it."
"Do ye now?" he asked with a faint smile. Then bent to nip at her ear before trailing his lips down her neck.
"Aye," she breathed, squirming against his body in the water. It wasn't the kiss she'd meant, but this was nice too.
"And do ye like this?" he asked, his voice a husky growl as one hand covered her breast underwater and began to knead. "Or this?" His other hand pressed against her bottom as he moved closer to the stairs, so that she rode lower in the water and her groin rubbed against his.
"Oh, aye," she moaned, arching her back and wrapping her legs around his hips so that their bodies rubbed together more firmly.
The action earned her another kiss, this one hot and demanding as he carried her out of the water and up the steps.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.”
“Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.”
“Ye Must Take Me For A Featherbrain - Mared Lockhart”
Source: Highlander Unbound
“Ye need her as she needs ye....and Inuyasha...DO NOT FORGET WHERE YE BURIED ME!”
“Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Ye're about as Irish as a plastic paddy”
Source: Crow
“Ye're my wife, Katherine. Ye promised before God to obey me. If I want to sleep with ye, I damned well will.”
Source: Once Upon a Plaid
“Ye’re wet,” he groaned.
“I’m underwater.”
“I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.”
Source: The Scot Beds His Wife
“Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!”
“Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.”
Source: Lydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.”
“Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy