““Tomorrow?”
“Sh.” She put her hand across his lips. “Never say the word!””
Jack Vance book Emphyrio
Source: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 12
“Oh no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word.”
Oh no! we never mention her, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Variant: "Oh, no, we never mention him". <br class="br"> Psychæ; or, Songs on butterflies &c http://books.google.com/books?id=M2IIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Oh+no+we+never+mention+her+Her+name+is+never+heard+My+lips+are+now+forbid+to+speak+That+once+familiar+word%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage (1828).
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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839Related quotes
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