Quotes
Quotes about Tongue
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
We must be free or die who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy live in realms above;
And life is thorny, and youth is vain,
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,--
Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
So varied in discourse.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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!
Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
Go put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we;
Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,--
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men!
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
The land of faery,
Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,
Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
Pray, Goody, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue!
Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes?
Remember, when the judgment's weak the prejudice is strong.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,
Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
