Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

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

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

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

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.

[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 care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor

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

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.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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

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)

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

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

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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 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?

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 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.

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

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

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.

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