The tongue is the soft weapon that kills subtly.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other…

— Jean Anouilh

“A brick could be licked, like a cat’s asshole. But obviously inversed, because your tongue is soft and the brick is rough.
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— Jarod Kintz

We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of…

— Margaret Atwood

Love is a dangerous weapon that kills anyone.

— Vikrant Parsai

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

— Bruce Springsteen

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

— Sharon Horgan

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for…

— Aldous Huxley

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

— Noam Chomsky

“Men and women wanted to inspect her, to be close to her, to try to find what caused the disturbance she distributed so subtly.…

— John Steinbeck

There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously,…

— David Schwimmer

No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to…

— Ethel Smyth

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

— Carl Jung

“To have 'order', an atmosphere of 'positivity' must be subtly inserted. When you are mass of maneuver, mediocrity never gives up anything voluntarily without some sort…

— Robert Neil Fleischer