Tongue Quotes

A nervous silence loosens tongues

— Jacqueline Carey

“A woman's weapon is her tongue.”

— Anthony Trollope

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

— William Shakespeare

The honied tongue hath its poison.

— Publilius Syrus

“a tongue blistered with smiling”

— Lucille Clifton

Let the poor man mind his tongue

— Ovid

Done to death by slanderous tongue

— William Shakespeare

Top of mind means tip of tongue.

— Jonah Berger

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

— Hesiod

I've been known not to bite my tongue.

— Freddie Gibbs

Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.

— Vikrant Parsai

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster then the mind.

— AD

Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel

— Bulgarian Proverb

It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

— John Heywood

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

— Black Francis

The tongue weighs practically nothing...but few people can hold it.

— Anonymous

Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.

— Sherry Yard

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use…

— William Shakespeare

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

— John Schlesinger

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

— Gene Simmons

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

— Bryan Procter

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son,…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

— Anonymous

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to…

— Mark Twain

“The essence of her drives me fucking insane because there's nothing as sweet as the taste of your woman on your tongue.…

— Mia Asher

Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could…

— Cornelia Funke

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes…

— Edith Wharton

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave…

— Anne Royall

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech…

— Jose Saramago

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:…

— Ovid

“Every time our tongues melded, your tongue glowed with shiny drops as starry, spring skies. في كل مرة تمتزج فيه شفتينا ، يتوهج لسانك بقطرات لامعة كنجوم سماء الربيع”

— Amany Al-Hallaq

Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work… How unworthy of the Christian…

— Tertullian

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks.…

— David A. Embury

You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting…

— Michael Broadbent

“What the tongue wants. Supplication and the burn of crystals expanding. To be, always, a waxing, a waning, and, in waxing again,…

— Donika Kelly

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to…

— Gabrielle Union

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the…

— Robert Musil

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and…

— Joy Williams

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.…

— Hunter S. Thompson