"Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me."
Mouths quotes
Mouths
1.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mouths
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mouths — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mouths quotes (page 10 of 58)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly."
"What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness."
"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling."
"Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person."
"We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids."
"because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line."
"Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand."
"He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner."
"Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth."
"Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?"
"How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?"
"If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth"
"In some cases is keeping your mouth shut the best answer."
"Why do old people drive with their mouths open?"
"If someone throws a pie at your face, just open your mouth really wide and say, 'Thanks for feeding me, a**hole.'"
"Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth."
"In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap."
"As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell."
"Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false."