Quote by Oscar Wilde

“What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves…

— Confucius

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.”

— Caroline George

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.”

— Anne Rice

“he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen,”

— Walter Scott

“He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.”

— Yoshida Kenkō

“A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”

— Diogenes Laertius

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky