“(after coughing) …and then you cough and die.”

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist

“I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes].”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.”

Artur Schnabel (1882–1951) Austrian pianist

“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, "*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?"”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“(after coughing) I have… something. It'll clear up. Might take me with it, but we'll see.”

Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian