Mutter

Famous quotes containing the word mutter:

“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Come round me, little childer;
There, don’t fling stones at me
Because I mutter as I go;
But pity Moll Magee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)