Tongue Quotations | Page 4

I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach out and just strangle him or send a few F-bombs his way, I just bit my tongue, told him he offended me and walked away.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..

I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature.

Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me. It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

The honied tongue hath its poison.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

The mother tongue is propaganda.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

With a tongue like a cow, she could make you go wow.

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

A still tongue makes a happy life.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.