Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

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

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

Shutup, lapdog, this isn’t your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

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

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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

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

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God.

That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

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

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.