Tongue Quotes - Page 5

• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ears, Prosperity

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

  Cato the Younger

  Silence, Quiet, Virtue

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• A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Nimble, Bears

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.74, Sparklesoup LLC

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• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Eye, Lips

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

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• Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

  Jon Jones

  Lying, Men, Evil

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• Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Inspirational, Together, Judgment

  Aesop, Sir Roger L'Estrange (1708). “Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected”, p.276

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Lips, Language

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• He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

  Matthew Henry

  Sweet

  'An Exposition of the Old and New Testament' (1710) Psalm 36, v. 2, gloss 1

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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Beautiful, Song, Philosophy

  "Sacred Jewels of Yoga: Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monks" edited by Dave DeLuca, 2011.

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• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Sex, Women

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

  Robertson Davies

  Silence, Sometimes, Conversation

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, People, Care

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.60, Atlântico Press

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

  Henry James

  Literature, Holding On, Natural

  1881 Isabel Archer. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.10.

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• No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

  Lord Byron

  Inward, Ears, Hell

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour [Unquenched, Unquenchable]”

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• Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Prayer, Desire

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prison, Fame, Abode

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Offering

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• I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

  Rumi

  Ears, Steps, Speak

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Communication, Losing

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773

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• Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

  Rumi

  Memories, Grief, Writing

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Slave

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• The tongue, the Chinese say,
  is like a sharp knife:
  it kills
  without drawing blood.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Knives, Drawing

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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