Selma Lagerlof Quotes
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.Selma Lagerlof
Quotes to Explore
-
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius -
The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Karl Liebknecht -
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates -
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium -
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.
Octave Feuillet
-
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson -
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides -
The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
Confucius -
Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
William Shakespeare
-
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
William Shakespeare -
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
William Shakespeare -
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare -
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte -
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac -
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
George Washington
-
Faithful heart may have froward tongue.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor -
Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.
Sandra Fluke -
I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
Ralph Peters -
At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
Nikki Reed -
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof