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Tongue Quotes - Page 18

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.134, William Butler Yeats

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.422, Wordsworth Editions

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.5

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan