Throat Quotes

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. (Robert Frost)
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. View quote
Arthur Miller
I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. View quote
Truman Capote
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. View quote
Robert Frost
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. View quote
Djuna Barnes
I'm the guy they used to call "Deep Throat." View quote
W. Mark Felt
A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. View quote
Robert Frost
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career. (Gloria Estefan)
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. View quote
Maya Angelou
I want to seize fate by the throat. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. View quote
Anne Sexton
The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic. View quote
Ted Hughes
Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again. View quote
Shaka
He stuck a camera down my throat.... ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though..... he said I have "Acute Laryngitis." View quote
Avril Lavigne
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. View quote
Vernor Vinge
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China. View quote
Nigel Lawson
I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent. (Katy Perry)
Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in! View quote
William Golding
The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage-anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there. View quote
Henry Lawson
Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. View quote
William Shakespeare
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat. View quote
Pliny the Elder
📖 Throat Proverbs