Admire Quote by Anonymous

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

— Dante Alighieri

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The…

— Alexander Pope

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

— Cato the Younger

“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process…

— Richard J. Foster

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn,…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

— Joseph Butler

“A wicked tongue: Slander, gossip, cussing, sarcasm, poisonous tongue, bearing false witness, and murmuring.”

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

— Toba Beta

The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very…

— Anonymous

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

— Anatole France

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning…

— William Shakespeare