Top Tongue Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Tongue quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Anthony Marra
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
- Anthony Marra
Collection: Tongue
Image of Arthur Guiterman
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -
- Arthur Guiterman
Collection: Tongue
Image of Cato the Younger
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
- Cato the Younger
Collection: Tongue
Image of Angelina Grimke
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
- Angelina Grimke
Collection: Tongue
Image of Brigid Brophy
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
- Brigid Brophy
Collection: Tongue
Image of Al Nichol
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
- Al Nichol
Collection: Tongue
Image of V. S. Pritchett
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
- V. S. Pritchett
Collection: Tongue
Image of Krishnananda Saraswati
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.
- Krishnananda Saraswati
Collection: Tongue
Image of Becca Fitzpatrick
Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.
- Becca Fitzpatrick
Collection: Tongue
Image of Steve Fowler
Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!
- Steve Fowler
Collection: Tongue
Image of Marvin Bell
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
- Marvin Bell
Collection: Tongue
Image of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Collection: Tongue
Image of Michael Dowd
Facts are God’s native tongue.
- Michael Dowd
Collection: Tongue
Image of James I of Scotland
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
- James I of Scotland
Collection: Tongue
Image of Amber Dermont
My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.
- Amber Dermont
Collection: Tongue
Image of Annie Baker
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
- Annie Baker
Collection: Tongue
Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Collection: Tongue
Image of Pauletta Pearson Washington
It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.
- Pauletta Pearson Washington
Collection: Tongue
Image of Konrad Adenauer
All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.
- Konrad Adenauer
Collection: Tongue
Image of Yevgeny Zamyatin
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Collection: Tongue
Image of Seneca the Younger
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Tongue
Image of William Shakespeare
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Tongue
Image of Ray Bradbury
Those women like to see their tongues dance.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: Tongue
Image of Jodi Picoult
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
- Jodi Picoult
Collection: Tongue
Image of William Shakespeare
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Tongue
Image of Yevgeny Zamyatin
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Collection: Tongue
Image of Anne Bronte
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
- Anne Bronte
Collection: Tongue
Image of Aeschylus
A great ox stands on my tongue.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Tongue
Image of Al Yankovic
I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
- Al Yankovic
Collection: Tongue
Image of Rumi
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
- Rumi
Collection: Tongue
Image of Jonathan Swift
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Tongue
Image of R. A. Salvatore
Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.
- R. A. Salvatore
Collection: Tongue
Image of William Shakespeare
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Tongue
Image of William Shakespeare
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Tongue
Image of Robert Greene
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Tongue
Image of Alan Rickman
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
- Alan Rickman
Collection: Tongue
Image of Aeschylus
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Tongue
Image of Plutarch
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
- Plutarch
Collection: Tongue
Image of N.D. Wilson
Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
- N.D. Wilson
Collection: Tongue
Image of Tacitus
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
- Tacitus
Collection: Tongue
Image of Pythagoras
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
- Pythagoras
Collection: Tongue
Image of William Shakespeare
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Tongue
Image of Edward Norton
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.
- Edward Norton
Collection: Tongue
Image of John Milton
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.
- John Milton
Collection: Tongue
Image of Louisa May Alcott
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
- Louisa May Alcott
Collection: Tongue
Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Collection: Tongue