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Tongue Quotes - Page 12

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Fables: Stevenson's Vol. 18”, p.28, VM eBooks

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.295, London : [s.n.]

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour [Unquenched, Unquenchable]”

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 808-9, Satires, IX, line 120, 1922.

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

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Practical works”, p.281

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610