The Tongue Quotes

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

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

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.