Grotesque Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“The darker the skin, the whiter seem yellow teeth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“. . . it was his teeth that stood out most of all, each smooth and square and exactly the same. Teeth like big…

— Daniel Barnett

“I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose…

— Bram Stoker

“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“I wanted so badly to kick in his perfectly white, good dental plan teeth.”

— Bobby Adair

“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom…

— Victor Hugo

“Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!”

— Marissa Meyer

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

— Faith Sullivan

“Yet the little tooth contains so much of our connection to the rest of life that it is virtually impossible to understand our bodies…

— Neil Shubin

“These kissed life on the mouth—and were eaten.”

— A. A. Attanasio

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

— Zadie Smith

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

— Benjamin Franklin