Books Quote by Gwendolyn MacEwen

“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—”

— Gwendolyn MacEwen

“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“IV Yes, I have a thousand tongues, And nine and nighty-nine lie. Though I strive to use the one, It will make no melody…

— Stephen Crane

“When the tongue fails to convey what the heart has in store; Silence, becomes the language of love.”

— Suhaib Rumi

“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

“If only our tongues where made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.”

— Shaun Shane

“Our tongues can’t compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There…

— Jamie Weise

“And love it more than tongue can speak—”

— Robert Browning

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

— Haruki Murakami

“You may say, I thought the Lord would give us the gift of tongues. He won't if we are too indolent to study them.…

— John Taylor

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When it comes to the senses all humans speak the same beastly tongue”

— André Aciman