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Quotes About Cough

You don't look as tough as that." "I don't know how tough I am—look at me, sick as a pup. But I bet I can match you for stubborn." A sound came out of him. "Holy shit, Ian—was that a laugh?" "A cough," he lied. "You probably got me sick.
~ Robyn Carr
Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.
~ Rodman Philbrick
He smiled, sadly. 'You know the popular saying that the three conditions impossible to conceal are a cough, wealth and being in love? Well, to me there is a fourth: mathematical gift.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
~ Willa Cather
For the last week I have not been at all well, and indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore. To-day this abstraction is not necessary; I am much better; and, indeed, little remains of the indisposition but the vulgar fractions of a cough and cold.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kit turned to fix Ben with a glare, but the wry bemusement on the young poet's face turned a searing glance into a sideways shrug. One that made Ben cough again, and then burst out laughing, both hands over his face.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
~ George Herbert
He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins. Why is mankind so fucking cruel? Why?
~ Sally Gardner
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
~ Anne Sexton
There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.
~ Jonathan Stroud
When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something.
~ Ben Marcus
He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.
~ Gillian Flynn
You forgot to cough!" he said. "Sorry." She coughed. "Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head." "Now, Peder, there's plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face." He stroked his chin. "You're right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection." She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.
~ Shannon Hale
Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. Poly , meaning 'many.' Ticks meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!
~ Olive Schreiner
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
She coughed into her fist. "I, ahem, don't want to sound didactic or fictitious in any manner," she began, doing a great Woody impression. She had his timing, the speech delay tactics. She had the hand mannerisms. She had the New York accent. It was her best work. "But I may have some important information." Myron
~ Harlan Coben
Garrett had been bed-bound for the last week with a cough.The doctor had prescribed rest and leeches. Garrett had consented to the first treatment but insisted that his bankers provided more than enough of the second.
~ Simon Scarrow
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Gulp –dijeron la sopa y Manuel en estrecha alianza, rota instantáneamente por un ataque de tos que los proyectó en direcciones opuestas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I'm to trade my life for Rose's, I'd appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.
~ Franny Billingsley
The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog.
~ Terry Pratchett
Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.
~ Thomas Fuller
With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.
~ Mike Mignola