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Quotes About Teeth

was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.
~ Rachel Hartman
His beard was matted, and he was missing several teeth (his remaining teeth, emboldened by the extra room, had rebelled against the tyranny of standing in line).
~ Rachel Hartman
What are men but hungry wolves, a prowling on the heath? If in a pack of wolves you hunt, you'd better sharp your teeth.
~ Ragnar Redbeard
Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.
~ Raymond Queneau
you have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.
~ Raymond Chandler
Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.
~ Raymond Chandler
Anybody home, son?" "You ought to know." "How would I know?" "Go — yourself." "That's how people get false teeth." He showed me his in a tight grin.
~ Raymond Chandler
He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't quite make it. His hat did though. It rolled off his head and down the gang-plank and landed, plop, on America. Poor devil. I heard it was his heart, but the way the Chinese dentist described the business, it could have been his teeth.
~ Richard Brautigan
I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.
~ Richard K. Morgan
One of my wisdom teeth is playing up. My dentist said it is known to happen with some people when they're stressed. My teeth seem to know I'm stressed before I do. Maybe that's why they're called wisdom teeth.
~ Karl Pilkington
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
~ E. B. White
The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
~ Phyllis Diller
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
~ Delmore Schwartz
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
~ Calvin Trillin
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
~ Anne Sexton
Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.
~ Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
~ Neil Gaiman
A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
~ David Hayter
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.
~ John Cusack
Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.
~ Anthony Liccione
Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
~ Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.
~ Felicity Jones