The Tongue Quotes

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

She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

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

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

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

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.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

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

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

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

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

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

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

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.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.