Quotes about mouth
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“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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“You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?
I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.”

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 151 : exchange between 'LaBoeuf' and 'Rooster Cogburn'

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“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

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“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Gatsby Girls

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“Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

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“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

Variant: It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Source: The Alchemist

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“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”

I, 4
Moralia, Of Eating of Flesh
Context: For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. And then we fancy that the voices it utters and screams forth to us are nothing else but certain inarticulate sounds and noises, and not the several deprecations, entreaties, and pleadings of each of them.

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“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Source: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

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“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
1920s
Variant: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

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“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”

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

"Killing the Love"
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Source: The Complete Poems

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“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

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“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.”

Loraine Despres (1938) Novelist/screen writer

Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

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“the sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so gently before.
you have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them
like sunlight on the wings of birds.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar