Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue

— Anonymous

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

— Mikhail Bulgakov

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

— Cato the Younger

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

— Joseph Hall

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

— Chief Joseph

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

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

— John Lancaster Spalding

It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Utterance of a negative tongue, will never promote a truthful mind.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash…

— Joseph Addison

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

— Euripides