The Tongue Quotes

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue.

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.