Tongue Quotes - Page 12

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?
Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55
Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Fables: Stevenson's Vol. 18”, p.28, VM eBooks
Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.72
Richard Lederer (2010). “Crazy English”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
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.]
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
Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.120, Da Capo Press
Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.60, Lulu.com
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour [Unquenched, Unquenchable]”
"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