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Definition of Ah

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

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Ah Quotations

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. Fields

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous Huxley

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Moliere

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant

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

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
Adolf Galland

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning Hamilton

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
Tommy Hilfiger

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
Scotty McCreery

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ah in Dutch is och, ach, oh, ah
ah in French is ah
ah in Spanish is ah

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