If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

-Barnes, Djuna
  'Greenwich Village  As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

Ask me no more whither dost haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note.

-Carew,Thomas
  'A Song'.

Two things should have been cut. The second act and that youngster's throat.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
After watching a play featuring a14-year-old child star (sometimes identified as Bonnie Langford).  Attributed.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

-Frost, Robert Lee
Quoted in Elizabeth S Sergeant Robert Frost: The Trial By Existence (1960).

The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'

-Gibbons, Orlando
  TheFirst Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'View of a Pig'.

William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'For The Union Dead'.

The Socialist papers†came out full tothethroat of well- printed matter†admirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard words†with a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.

-Morris,William
  News from Nowhere.

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

-Osler, Sir William
Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler:  Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).

You've got a sharp tongue in your head, Mr Essick. Look out it doesn't cut your throat.

-Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)
The Rising Gorge,'All Out†'.

The best thing to do right now is to throw a feed into her as the chances are that her stomach thinks her throat is cut.

-Runyon, (Alfred) Damon
  Blue Plate Special,'Little Miss Marker'.

In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

-Swift,Jonathan
  'Verses on the Upright Judge'.

If youwanttocut yourownthroat, don'tcometomefora bandage.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  Comment to Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he pressed for sanctions against South Africa. Quoted in Time,7 Jul.

As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The City of Dreadful Night, pt.4.

   Whoever is Lord of Malacca hashishand onthethroat of Venice.

-Tome¤   Pires
^15  TheSuma Oriental ofTome¤   Pires (translated byArmando Cortasao,1944).

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, III.'GettingTheWords Out'.

What would it pleasure me, to have my throat cut With diamonds? Or to be smothered With cassia? Or to be shot to death, with pearls?

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.

Every time that Mr Macmillan comes back from abroad, Mr Butlergoestotheairport andgripshimwarmly by the throat.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Attributed.

Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.

-Plum
  The InimitableJeeves, ch.13.