Tongue Quotes · Page 29

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and…

— William Shakespeare

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

— Rick Riordan

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

— Rumi

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there…

— Meg Cabot

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered…

— Corrie Ten Boom

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the…

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Philip Sidney

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Probability of helping someone with your tongue is low”

— Fathima Fabeela

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

— Oswald Chambers

“Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue…

— Jazz Feylynn

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and…

— Charles William Eliot

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can…

— Jodi Picoult

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover…

— Louis de Bernieres

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its…

— Anonymous

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was…

— Lori Wilde

Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual…

— Gregory Palamas

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

— William Shakespeare

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. “It seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn…

— Amanda Hocking

“It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.”

— Emil Cioran

What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be…

— Melina Marchetta

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

— Paul Tillich