Deglutition Quotes

The days and weeks of screwed-up smiles and laboured courtesy, the mock geniality, the hearty shake of the filthy hand, the chuckling reply that must be made to the coarse joke, the loathsome, choking compliment that must be paid to the grimy wife and sluttish daughter, the indispensable flattery of the vilest religious prejudices, the wholesale deglutition of hypocritical pledges. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)
Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. That's what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases. View quote
Isidore Isou
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. View quote
Ambrose Bierce