Top 100 Ah Yes Quotes
#1. Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry Pratchett
#2. I squinted. "What's that on your hand, Barrons? Blood?" He started, glanced at me, then at his hand. "Ah yes," he said, as if remembering, "I was out for a walk. There was a badly injured dog in the street. I returned it to its owner's shop to die.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?"
"Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now.
Ilona Andrews
#4. Le ... feb ... vre ... Ah, yes. You purse your lips as though you were going to kiss some lucky gentleman. Lefebvre.
Carla Kelly
#5. Like they'd never seen a hot professor before. You made quite an impression in your turtleneck."
"Ah, yes, the turtleneck. Turtles have that effect on people.
Sylvain Reynard
#6. Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century.
Haruki Murakami
#7. I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
Billy Collins
#8. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go. In
Bram Stoker
#9. Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.
Jaye Frances
#11. Sydney, my future wife, I will forgive you but perhaps I should punish you first," he teased. "Ah yes, a spanking perhaps?
Kym Grosso
#12. There it is - a flash of relief crosses his expression. Searching for emotion in Sherlock's face is like bird watching. Ah, yes, the rare relief-bird.
Eva Morgan
#13. Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#14. I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
Jackie Chan
#15. Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.
Paul Begala
#16. Let's see ... ah, yes, this is nice and cozy. It was a broom cupboard.
J.K. Rowling
#17. For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.
Ugo Mochi
#18. Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.
Natalie Wright
#19. Ah yes, the man or the crown. I'm afraid some can't tell the difference.
Kiera Cass
#20. Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
Avi
#22. They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.
J.K. Rowling
#23. Ah, yes. The lovely Claudia. We certainly would not want the Angel to become concerned about her hoyden of a cousin, would we?" Augusta
Amanda Quick
#24. Have to go see the official housing, but I should be able to sneak out after sunset. Meet you back at our usual spot?" "Ah, yes; I'd missed this phase in our relationship. The intrigue. The subterfuge. The frequent need for tetanus shots." Dominic
Seanan McGuire
#25. Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak
to whisk me off to foreign lands
I should not trade it for the richest robes,
nor for the mantle of a king.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. Ah, yes. Harry Potter. Our new - celebrity.
J.K. Rowling
#27. Indeed, as my dear husband used to say, 'the apparel oft proclaims the man,'" Lady Atherton said.
Ah yes, wise words from the late Earl of Atherton, William Shakespeare.
Tarun Shanker
#28. Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#29. I think heroes and heroines are both vulgar and boring and usually lead that kind of lives. But when you tell people you were just doing your own thing in an admittedly escalated situation, they say, Ah, yes, etc.
Katharine Graham
#30. Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.
Dan Brown
#31. No, this was Philly. Drunks here boo Santa and get in more trouble than a dog with an Easter basket, and like the dog, they usually end up either sick or dead. Ah yes, another lovely eve in the big city.
Kym Grosso
#32. I was trying to look at the positive in a very dreary situation. After all, the woman you have to marry nearly killed you thrice!"
"Ah, yes. Thank you for the reminder. I shall be sure to shout "'til death do us part" quite proudly, knowing it will be quite soon in seeking me out.
Rachel Van Dyken
#33. I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.
Nina Hartley
#34. Ah yes! I'm feeling a powerful energy through my bullshit chokra. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
E.J. Eisman
#35. Ah! Yes, the truth, that ingenious concoction of desirability of appearance.
Anatole France
#36. Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
#37. Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.
Sophia Dembling
#38. You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?"
"Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.
Alexandra Bracken
#39. I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government,
Terry Pratchett
#40. We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
Alan Jay Lerner
#41. No, Mom. I said fine."
"It's just your tone."
Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
Deb Caletti
#42. Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things.
Alex Shvartsman
#43. How did that saying go? Alexia wondered. Ah, yes, "Brash as an American." Well, they had won their independence somehow, and it was not with politeness.
Gail Carriger
#44. Ah yes, a mother. I had one of those, once. She was prettier, though.
K.F. Breene
#45. Then he would cry, but what nobody knows nobody cares for; so he would cry till he was tired, and then fall asleep; and while we are asleep we can feel neither hunger nor thirst. Ah, yes; sleep is a capital invention.
Hans Christian Andersen
#46. Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#47. Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.
Lilli Thal
#48. Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system ... He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system offering occasional glimpses of St. Peter and the pearly gates over two separate sets of dividing concrete barriers.
Helen Simonson
#50. Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.
Jamie Delano
#51. Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
#52. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.
Jennifer Paynter
#53. Ah, yes,' said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.
Agatha Christie
#54. Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp ... " She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?"
That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope."
Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes ...
Rick Riordan
#55. Ah yes, freedom! Even a hint of it, just the faintest hope of it, is enough to make one's spirit soar, don't you think?
Anton Chekhov
#56. Ah, yes, pink camo," I murmur, gesturing my chin at her tank top and hoodie. "Because you never know when you'll have to hide in a bubblegum factory.
Elisabeth Wheatley
#57. Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
Edward Abbey
#58. It was not so much a modification of the darkness, as a sigh of relief, a slight relaxing of tension, so that one felt, rather than saw, that the night had suddenly lost a shade of its density ... ah! yes; there! between these two shoulders of the hills she is bleeding to death.
Hope Mirrlees
#59. Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!
Gelett Burgess
#60. Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Robin Benway
#61. Ah, yes, my social life - a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
Robert Breault
#62. Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.
Jim Butcher
#63. Hi," I return, gesturing to the fish. "Nice catch."
"Yeah. I'm kind of impressed with myself. I always thought redheads were sexy."
"Ha-ha. I meant the fish."
"Ah. Yes.
Sophie Jordan
#64. And I suppose have only made myself more unpopular: ah yes: but freer. That's the point.
Virginia Woolf
#65. Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
#66. The ass that's officially owned by me?" Gavin caressed his hands down her waist, settling on said ass. "This one? Ah, yes. Yes, this one. I love this ass."
"Owned?" Emily playfully questioned.
"Yes ... owned. Never to be leased by another. I'm king landlord, sweets.
Gail McHugh
#67. Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus
#68. Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
Tony Blair
#69. Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken.
K.F. Breene
#70. Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah ... yes. John Green."
"Jason Grace."
"Whatever," the god said.
Rick Riordan
#71. With his wife's imperious face peering down at him, Lord Maccon took a moment to wonder why he had thought to crave such a woman in his life. Alexia bent over and nibbled at his chest. Ah, yes, initiative and ingenuity.
Gail Carriger
#72. Grimm frowned. "Ah. Um. Am I in any danger?" "You're dead as a stone, man!" "I am?" "Yes. No, actually, not even remotely, but for purposes of this conversation, yes.
Jim Butcher
#73. Yes, I have loved as none in the world ever loved - with an insensate and furious passion - so violent that I am astonished it did not cause my heart to burst asunder. Ah, what nights - what nights!
Theophile Gautier
#74. Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.
Angie Sage
#75. I knew him, you know, your beloved Novron. Ah, but yes, you already discovered that little fact. Here's something the books won't tell you. He was an ass.
Michael J. Sullivan
#76. Yes, but I doubt Jane Eyre is explicit about irrational fucking.' 'Ah, so you believe my only source of information is a Bildungsroman from the nineteenth century about an orphan girl who marries a gigantic arse.
Charlotte Stein
#77. Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.
John Flanagan
#78. Her jaw dropped. "Ah," he said genially, "I see you take my meaning. Yes. If I discover that you've completed another item on that list without my escort, I shall tell your brother everything." She
Sarah MacLean
#79. He raised his eyebrows"you could kill me"
"i couldn't"she said"for you would know I meant to kill you, and you'd escape me. You'd stay far away from me, always"
"Ah, but i wouldn't"
"Yes, you would",she said,"if i wished to kill you"
"I wouldn't
Kristin Cashore
#80. The unicorn stared at him. Then, "Gary." "Your name is Gary," Sam said. "Yes." "Ah. That's ... not very unicorn-like." Gary scowled. "And what is unicorn-like?" Sam shrugged. "I don't know. Like Princess Moon Cloud or Ethereal Tear or Star Shine.
T.J. Klune
#81. It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.'"
"Yes, but meanwhile -"
"Ah, meanwhile -
Edith Wharton
#82. Silverfish looked down.
"Oh. Are you a dwarf?"
Cuddy gave him a blank stare.
"Are you a giant?" He said.
"Me? Of course not!"
"Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.
Terry Pratchett
#83. Ah, Master Bates," I said with deep thought. "Why yes, I think I will speak to him." "I
Mitty Walters
#84. You're going to the ball?"
"Aren't you? I was led to believe we had no choice in the matter."
Vol cracks a wry smile. "Ah. You've met Kira, then."
"If that self-congratulatory guinea pig in my doorway this morning was Kira, then yes. We're acquainted.
Nenia Campbell
#85. COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil.
LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.
George Bernard Shaw
#86. Just say yes, Lily. Why try avoiding the unavoidable?"
Ah, why indeed!
Ramona Wray
#87. Ah,' the innkeeper said. 'So you were getting ready to drink then?'
'Tiny Gods, yes,' Bast said. 'To great excess. What the hell else is there to do?
Patrick Rothfuss
#88. Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.
Lewis Carroll
#89. But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then ... am I dead too?'
'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
J.K. Rowling
#90. Yes, I still believe in God. That hasn't changed. I just needed some time away."
"Ah." Inspector Carrola clicked his tongue. "For your sake, I hope that God does not need some time away from you.
Richard Devin
#91. Miles paused at the door. "Ah - about Tav Calhoun - " "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#92. Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married. But not to an Englishman; to one who, like herself, is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard! It was cruel, cruel!), it is a curious thing that she is going
Charles Dickens
#93. You have been resident in my house three months?"
"Yes, sir."
"And you came from
?"
"From Lowood school, in -shire."
"Ah! a charitable concern. How long were you there?"
"Eight years."
"Eight years! you must be tenacious of life.
Charlotte Bronte
#94. Nick: I'm not leaving you. I don't care what you try to do to push me away. I don't care what comes along. I'm here. If you think I'm going to back down now, you're crazy.
Maggie: So you're going to love me out of spite?
Nick: Yes.
Maggie: Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.
Molly Harper
#95. Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties."
"Oh?"
"Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.
Gail Carriger
#96. I was not giving you a heated look." "What do you call it then?" "I was merely appreciating your, ah ... finer points." "Yes, well, I could do the same for you except - " "Except what?" "They are all under the desk.
Karen Hawkins
#97. What happened?"
"I f***ed Titan."
"Ah."
"Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?
Misty Kayn
#98. I find it fascinating that the conventional diagnosis of "depression" is so simplistic. It is almost like saying that someone is "sick." Yes, sick with what or of what? Ah, no, just "sick." We have anti-sick pills (anti-depressants). One size fits all. Really?
Gary K. Smith
#99. Ah," said Varney. "Then I'm working for you, aren't I?" "Yes, you are," said Mr. Croup. "I'm afraid we don't have any redeeming features." "That doesn't bother me," said Varney. "Good," said Mr. Croup. "Welcome aboard.
Neil Gaiman
#100. Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.
Jeff Barry
