Tongues Quotes

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

— Sophocles

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

— Ray Bradbury

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

— Anonymous

“Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.”

— Margaret Pargeter

“We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Flowery tongues have thorny throats.”

— Kirush Muser

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

— Jennifer Calvert

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

— Meg Cabot

“an Evolution strange two Tongues touch exchange a Feast unknown to stone or tree or beast”

— May Swenson

“Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said. "Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.”

— Neal Shusterman

Guard your tongues because when you talk about another negatively you are defining yourself. Stand up for each other.

— Anonymous

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to…

— Anonymous

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

— Wes Fesler

I only say I love you when I mean it just like I only speak in tongues when Im heated.

— Anonymous

If only our tongues were made of glass how much more carefull we would be when we speak

— Real Hair

“She was speaking in tongues?" "What da f**k else she gonna speak with?" Veda rolled her eyes. I saw no reason to…

— Sierra Dean

In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel…

— Michael O'Keefe

“Our tongues aren’t interested in what’s right or wrong or fucking irresponsible. Our tongues just want to fuck each other.”

— K. Webster

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be…

— Doug Collins

“IV Yes, I have a thousand tongues, And nine and nighty-nine lie. Though I strive to use the one, It will make…

— Stephen Crane

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because…

— George Eliot

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little.…

— Toni Morrison

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but…

— Anonymous

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the…

— Lucretius

“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or…

— W.S. Merwin

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or…

— Anonymous

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of…

— Hermann Hesse

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent…

— William Shakespeare

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.…

— Baruch Spinoza

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their…

— Torquato Tasso

“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the…

— Lisel Mueller

“That's a killer accent you have. Sounds exotic.” “Just British, I'm afraid. I only know a trifling of foreign tongues.” He plopped…

— Bella Street

A tongue has no bones,but it is strong enough to break a heart,crash a spirit,kill a dream & inflict a deadly wound…

— Anonymous

“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They…

— Stephen King

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did…

— Suzy Kassem

But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

— Donita K. Paul

“As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.”

— Victor Hugo