Tongue Quotes

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.