Quotes about cough
A collection of quotes on the topic of cough, likeness, life, people.
Quotes about cough

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”
Source: The Color of Magic

The Scholars http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1682/, st. 2
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire Part II; Cited in Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006
Source: Intertwined
Source: Only the Good Spy Young

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

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.
p. 91-92.
Winston Churchill's shocking use of chemical weapons https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons (1 September 2013), .

“I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.”
Source: My Life and Music (1961), p. 202

Vol. XIV, p. 301
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Source: Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980), p. 105-6

"Alex Jones English British Accent imitates Police" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgK9ygGluk, The Alex Jones Show, 13 May 2013.
2013

Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 3

“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.”
Ralph Richardson, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. ISBN 0312307446.

Referring to Francis Bacon
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

The Miami Herald, originally 16 November 2003
Columns and articles

1930s, Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (June 1995), p. 3

Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

“(after coughing) I have… something. It'll clear up. Might take me with it, but we'll see.”
Like, Totally
Other
June “CRITICAL”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

“(after coughing) Excuse me. I have a touch of everything.”
What It Is.
Other
"The Return of Albert", line 21.
Albert, 'Arold and Others (1938)
"In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-naked-bed-in-plato-s-cave/
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

Source: The Man With the Iron Heart (2008), p. 528

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Drowned Wednesday (2005), p. 53.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part VI: Now We're Getting Somewhere, Montezuma
"Why Aren't We There Yet?"

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 245

Source: Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners, p. 15

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

“49. Love and a cough cannot be hid.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
A Voice from the Attic (1960)

“I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes].”
Sane Man (1989)

“Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed … into my mouth.”
Chewed Up

House of Incest (1936)
Context: The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

“All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes.”
Narrator, p. 63
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)
Context: Some feared the cavalry and in their minds they rehearsed the thunder of a thousand hooves, the dust rolling like a sea fog from the charge and shot through with the bright blades that could slice a man's life away or, worse, hook out his eyes and leave him in darkness for life. Others feared musket fire, the lottery of an unaimed bullet coming in the relentless volleys that would fire the dry grass with burning wads and roast the wounded where they fell. All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes. It was best not to think about that.

Canto I, line 81
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen'd to break off
I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,
H' had hard words, ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;
Else, when with greatest art he spoke,
You'd think he talk'd like other folk,
For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2017, p. 133
Sleep no more: Six Murderous Tales, published posthumously in 2017