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The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. — Groucho Marx
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. — Walter Raleigh
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The… — Tryon Edwards
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that… — Rumi
I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue. — Dolley Madison
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course… — Ursula K. Le Guin
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,… — Mark Twain
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. — Mark Twain
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… — Virginia Woolf
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham
What is a nation without a mother tongue? — Jack Edwards
The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. — Evan Esar
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. — William Shakespeare
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of… — Dante Alighieri
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. — Mark Twain
Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. — Madonna Ciccone
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. — Winston Churchill
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of… — Horace Walpole
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole… — Winston Churchill
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a… — Norman Doidge
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. — Brad Paisley
We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created,… — Robin Williams
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor — Max von Sydow
That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam… — Rachel Bilson
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his… — Rachel Bilson

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