The Tongue Quotes

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

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

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.

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

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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.

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

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

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

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

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

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

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

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.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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

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

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

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.

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.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

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

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

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

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

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

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

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.

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.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue