Throat Quotes

• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Fate, Overcoming

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2014). “Beethoven's Letters”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  Adele

  Voice, Paris, Singing

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• Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Jealous, Eye

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Listening, Sore Throat

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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cutting, Perfect, Cures

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• I shall seize fate by the throat.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Fate, Destiny

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2014). “Beethoven's Letters”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Sore Throat

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• When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Swans, Bird, Silver

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Sweet, Believe

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

  Mike Tyson

  Sleep, Divorce, Cutting

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• You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

  Ann Landers

  Guy, Needs, Giraffe

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• After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

  Djuna Barnes

  Necks

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

  Pauli Murray

  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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• I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

  Robert Goulet

  Thinking, Vegas, People

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Time, Morning

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cutting, Want, Iron Lady

  1986 Comment to Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he pressed for sanctions against South Africa. Quoted in Time, 7 Jul.

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• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Army, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

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• If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Hands, Ifs

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• It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

  Sara Zarr

  Missing

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.96, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

  Isadora Duncan

  Brother, Cutting, Animal

  "My Life". Book by Isadora Duncan (Chapter 28), 1927.

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