Famous quotes containing the word utter:
“How much sincere life before we can even utter one sincere word.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women—the quality of shifting from child to woman, the seeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, “What does a woman want?””
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)