Tongue Quotes

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

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —

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?

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

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.

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

Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

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

The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.

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

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?

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

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.

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

Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday