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Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.
— Francois Rabelais
Nay the honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.
— William Shakespeare
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you with hold the "aye.
— Kahlil Gibran
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
— Arthur Miller
Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child.
— William Shakespeare
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
— Edward Coke
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
— John Locke
He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
— Martin Luther
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my powerTo favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally. — Christopher Marlowe
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
— Steven Erikson
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
— Jane Austen
Do I need to go for a stroll? (Sin)Nay. I'm merely trying to kill your brother. (Maggie) — Kinley MacGregor
Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look
— William Gurnall
Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins
— Frank Giampaolo
You will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.
— Bram Stoker
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
— Jane Austen
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, this village isn't yer sanctuary from the cruel world. It's God Almighty. He's the only one who can protect ye.
— Jennifer Hudson Taylor
No guile? Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas! — Adelaide Crapsey
Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.
— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder — Matt Fraction
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nay," Isaac said.
— Ann H. Gabhart
Will ye, ay or nay?
— James Joyce
Nay," he agreed. "I am bigger. Stronger. Better.
— Karen Marie Moning
I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
— Shirley Manson
I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal.
— Bram Stoker
Cyn? Short for Cynric? (Callie)Nay. S-I-N. As in conceived, born in, and am currently living happily in. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor
She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains.
— Florence Morse Kingsley
Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin' for a spell, an' nothin'd be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never.
— David Mitchell
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
— Charles James Fox
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.
— Swami Vivekananda
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. — William Shakespeare
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.
— Philip Massinger
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 than modesty.
— Marcus Aurelius
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
— Philip Sidney
Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
— William Shakespeare
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
— Nikki Grimes
Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.
— Lionel Suggs
Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away
— Randolph Caldecott
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
— Robin McKinley
Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over.""Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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 contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism,
— Leo Strauss
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
— George Bernard Shaw
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. — Julie Garwood
Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl.
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there
— W. Robert Nay
No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
— John Wolcot
Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.
— David Mitchell
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome.
— Diana Gabaldon
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
— Henry David Thoreau
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 it.
— Emily Bronte
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
— Richard A. Proctor
I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go.
— William Shakespeare
I've lived in books more than I've lived nay where else.
— Neil Gaiman
Nay, we must think men are not gods,Nor of them look for such observancy
As fits the bridal. — William Shakespeare
Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease." "This
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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
Every situationnay, every moment
is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
