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Quotes About Tongue

Infatuation" Speak to me in colors– thus tinted are the windows to your soul. Might that I marvel in the mystery as it skirts 'cross their pond. And yet stilled are the words; they lie like copper upon my tongue–tarnished. For I cannot find them enough to say "I love you.
~ Charles
He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy.
~ Charles Dickens
Sharp! yes, her tongue is like a new-set razor. She's quite original in her talk too; one of those untaught wits that help to stock a country with proverbs. I told you that capital thing I heard her say about Craig—that he was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. Now that's an Æsop's fable in a sentence.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
And that sarcastic levity of tongue, The stinging of a heart the world hath stung...
~ Lord Byron, Lara, 1814
The doctor had asked him about the source of his anger, and Allander had exploded in a fit of verbosity. "So, Doctor," Allander had replied, "if that is what we can call you—you're certainly not a healer, but that's a different tale, isn't it? You'd like to know the source of my anger? I can speak your tongue. See if you can keep up.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Careless words have a way of leaving a bitter taste on your tongue.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
~ James Joyce
They mouth love's language. Gnash The thirteen teeth Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung, As sour as cat's breath, Harsh of tongue.
~ James Joyce
Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.
~ James Joyce
I RAISED AN EYEBROW AT HIM, AND HE STUCK OUT HIS TONGUE AND CROSSED HIS EYES WHEN JOSH TURNED AWAY FROM US TO GET THE FLYERS. IT WAS SUCH A DORKY MOVE THAT I SHOULD HAVE FELT SORRY FOR HIM, BUT IT WAS GENUINELY...CUTE
~ James Patterson
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
~ Marilyn French
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~ Hermione Gingold
The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.
~ William Butler Yeats
My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.
~ Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!
~ John Webster, The White Devil
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
~ Thomas Fuller
My grief no heart, my thoughts no tongue can tell.
~ Thomas Kyd
His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction.
~ Thomas Tryon
There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God's dishonour than the tongue.
~ Thomas Watson
A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.
~ Thornton W. Burgess
Second-grader brings gun to school. Jesus, what ever happened to just sticking out your tongue?
~ Tim Dorsey
I couldn't receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost because I was waiting for some supernatural power to take over my tongue and make me talk. It never did.
~ Norvel Hayes
Kesabaran adalah kekuasaan. Pergunakanlah untuk memupuk semangat, meredakan kemarahan, meredam angkara murka, mengubur rasa iri, menekan kesombongan, menahan lidah, mengekang tangan, sampai tiba waktunya anda memanen seluruh hasilnya.
~ Og Mandino
If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.
~ Orison Swett Marden