Tongue Quotes

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

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.

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

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

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

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.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

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.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.