Nay Quotes

235 Nay quotes by 168 unique authors

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and… — Mary Astell
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. — Susanna Moodie
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. — Christiaan Huygens
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and… — William Shakespeare
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.… — William Shakespeare
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. — Rudy Rucker
...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought… — Max Muller
Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency… — Richard M. Weaver
Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the… — Swami Vivekananda
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in… — Luis de Camoes
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily… — Matthew Henry
Between yea and nay, how much difference is there? — Laozi
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of… — Samuel Rutherford
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England. — Winston Churchill
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. — Epicurus
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good… — William Herschel
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world — nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time… — Dinah
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill

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