whisper quotes

He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'

-Korzeniowski
  Kurtz's final words. Heart of Darkness, pt.3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected in Youth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories,1902).

Every night, whisper 'Peace' in your husband's ear.

- Alfred Whitney Griswold
  Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.

A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'Rules for the Conduct of Newspaper Editors', in The Examiner, 6 Mar.

By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The White Man's Burden'.

Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands, little gold head; Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.

- A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
  When We Were VeryYoung,'Vespers'.

The oldlike childrentalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
   Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

I shall whisper Heavenly labials in a world of gutterals. It will undo him.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'The Plot Against the Giant'.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.117^28.

We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear,'You are not true.'

- Richard Wilbur
  Ceremony and Other Poems,'Epistemology'.