Nay Quotes

235 Nay quotes by 168 unique authors

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me… — John James Audubon
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you… — Ibn Arabi
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor… — Marcus Aurelius
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give… — Bill Vaughan
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges,… — Ben Jonson
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -… — Sigmund Freud
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not… — Anna Julia Cooper
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be… — Charles Darwin
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative… — Tom Hodgkinson
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than… — Samuel Johnson
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. — Horace Mann
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a… — Steve Nash
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the… — Quintilian
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a… — Jane Porter
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can… — Sidney Sheldon
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. — Henry David Thoreau
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... — C.S. Lewis
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,… — William Shakespeare
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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