Tongue Quotes - Page 11

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.