Tongue Quotes - Page 9

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.