Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

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

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

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

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

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

Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. “It seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn glared at us both. “Well then everything is exactly as it seems ” Loki said glibly.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

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

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

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

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

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.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.