Nay Quotes

235 Nay quotes by 168 unique authors

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. — Jim Butcher
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. — Jane Austen
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at… — Daniel Defoe
You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go — Diana Gabaldon
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose… — John Milton
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter… — Diana Gabaldon
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object… — Jane Austen
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can… — R A Salvatore
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I… — Elizabeth Gaskell
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and… — Jane Austen
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. — Jane Austen
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait… — Epictetus
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;… — John Locke
She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh,… — Julie Garwood
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide… — Emily Bronte
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make… — James Boswell
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught… — John Ruskin

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