Shall Come To Naught Quotes

#1. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady

#2. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted. She cared naught for living in the moment, but apparently her body was sensible. It wanted to breathe.

Julie Anne Long

#4. Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

William Blake

#5. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Leonora Speyer

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

William Shakespeare

#7. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray

Stella Coulson

#8. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare

#9. True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

Lloyd Alexander

#10. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#11. Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Malcolm Forbes

#12. Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.

Nancy E. Turner

#13. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Edith Hamilton

#15. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

#16. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#17. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

Joshua Romqn

#18. If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.

James Dashner

#19. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.

John Henry Newman

#20. Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

George Eliot

#21. Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The Infinite keeps naught save Love, for it is in its own likeness.

Kahlil Gibran

#23. Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Robert Greene

#24. The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns - for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past.

Steven Erikson

#25. Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#27. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

Samuel Beckett

#28. All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santayana

#29. You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses

Scott Lynch

#30. Bit by bit, man reduces to naught.

Akinwale Musa Oluseun