Tongue Quotes

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

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

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

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

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.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

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 is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

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

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

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

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.