Tongue Quotes - page 2

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. (Euripides)
Give thy thoughts no tongue. View quote
William Shakespeare
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. View quote
William Shakespeare
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. View quote
Oscar Levant
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. View quote
Adam Clarke
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. View quote
Max von Sydow
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. View quote
Pythagoras
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. View quote
Charles Sumner
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. (Thomas Jefferson)
Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken. View quote
Parmenides
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain? View quote
Frederick William Faber
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind. View quote
Solon
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair. View quote
Saadi
She is written in a foreign tongue. View quote
Henry James
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. View quote
W. H. Auden
The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry?I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The mother tongue is propaganda. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. View quote
Stephen Crane