Tongue Quotes · Page 21

Are you having performance issues?” I asked in surprise. “Bite your tongue,” Vlad said, with a snort. “I was seeing if Dermot…

— Jeaniene Frost

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

— Plutarch

When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Malcolm X

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

— Ambrose Bierce

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using…

— Jeff Dunham

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

— Saadi

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

— Katy Rose

Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper.”

— Francine Pascal

Secure tongue is the best quality indeed

— Ritu Ghatourey

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a…

— Joseph Addison

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

— Anne Sexton

My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

— Enya

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

— Euripides

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

— Naomi Shihab Nye

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or…

— Emily Saliers

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

— Jocelyn Murray

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

— Pythagoras

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

— John Ford

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

— William Shakespeare

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

— George Herbert

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

— Thomas Adams

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

— Charles Dickens