Tongue Quotes · Page 33

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and…

— Lord Byron

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

— Homer

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side…

— Alice Levine

To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics.…

— Robert Kirkman

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

— Ibn Ata Allah

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

— George Washington

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express…

— Elizabeth I

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should…

— Anne Bradstreet

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

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

— Martial

And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wiresand the night sky the color of stockings. I…

— Matthew Rohrer

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

— Chilon of Sparta

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

— El-P

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

— Xenocrates

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

— Jennifer Weiner

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

— Carole Radziwill

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

— Salman Rushdie

As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before,…

— Christopher Isherwood

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the…

— Ibn Ata Allah

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

— Thomas Jefferson

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain…

— Maria W. Stewart

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered…

— Anne Sexton

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

— Richard Steele