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Tongue Quotes - Page 13

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.32, eBookIt.com

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

"Three's a Crowd in Presidential Race?". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Ellen Glasgow (2015). “The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields”, p.137, The Floating Press

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.

Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.148, Ulysses Press