Bah Quotes

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah. (Rudyard Kipling)

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

Geezer Butler

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Allen Ginsberg

I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!" "Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!" "Bah, your brain isn't on board!

Rick Riordan

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Steve Martin

Iskilip is senile, more than half converted to his own artificial creed. He was mumbling about prophecies Val Nira made long ago, true prophecies. Bah! Tricks of memory and wishfulness.

Poul Anderson

Ghyl laughed also. "If I'm too serious, you're too irresponsible.” "Bah,” retorted Floriel. "Is the world responsible? Of course not! The world is random, vagrant, heedless. To be responsible is to be out of phase, to be insane!” Ghyl pondered a moment. "This is perhaps the case, in a world left to itself. But society imposes order. Living in a society, it is not insane to be responsible.”.

Jack Vance

Pooh Bah: This professional conscientiousness is highly creditable to you, but it places us in a very awkward position. Koko: My good sir, the awkwardness of your position is grace itself compared with that of a man engaged in the act of cutting off his own head.

W. S. Gilbert

You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!

Bram Stoker

Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.

Samuel Beckett

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. (Jack London)

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

Samuel Goldwyn

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

Christopher Paolini

Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don't rhyme.

Rick Riordan

Maurice Joly: In "Caesar” I bluntly accused our emperor of evil offenses...in ‘''this''' book I expose the nature of the man's mind, how he thinks, y'see! Alphonse: But, Maurice, this Napoleon has seduced the public with social gifts...libraries and wars to give them national patriotic pride. Maurice Joly: BAH! That is the kind of pallitative all dictators give their masses! But at what price? I ask you! Alphonse: So...you show his plan by the dialogue of Machiavelli who is known as a cunning manipulator of political power, eh? Maurice Joly: Yes, this is the clearest way to show the similarity of Napoleon's mind to Machiavelli's! Alphonse: Hmmm! A clever device I must admit!

Will Eisner

Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.

Ed Walsh

A natural scientist, examining a single atom, might well be able to asseverate the structure and history of the entire universe!" Bah!" muttered Hurtiancz. "By the same token, a sensible man need listen to but a single word in order to recognize the whole for egregious nonsense.

Jack Vance

Bah The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

H. G. Wells

Once, when asked to give his definition of genius, Edison replied: "Two per cent. is genius, and 98 per cent. is hard work." At another time, when the argument that genius was inspiration was brought before him, he said: "Bah! Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration"

Thomas Edison