Best 374 quotes in «tongue quotes» category

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

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.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

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

Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 eyes those silent tongues of love.

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.