Top 361 Nay Quotes & Sayings

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

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 emotions.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

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.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

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 pretty classic tale.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

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.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

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 is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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.

Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf. Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble, Time will not pause or tarry on his way; To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter, Will soon be some forgotten yesterday. Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces, The unspent joy of all the unborn years, Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow, And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

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 the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.