Nay Quotes

235 Nay quotes by 168 unique authors

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and… — Learned Hand
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not… — George Eliot
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day,… — Lewis Carroll
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;… — Thomas Carlyle
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.… — Samuel Johnson
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future;… — Francesco Guicciardini
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held… — Israel Shenker
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after… — Swami Vivekananda
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every… — Mahatma Gandhi
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. — Arthur Keith
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking… — George Bernard Shaw
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to… — Ambrose
Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. — William Shakespeare
Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis… — William Shakespeare
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry… — William Shakespeare
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? — Thomas Carlyle
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still,… — Leigh Hunt
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without… — Joseph Joubert
But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should… — John Buchan
Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one… — Jon Stewart
When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head. — Max Muller

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