Tongue Quotes - Page 17

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

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

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

Done to death by slanderous tongue