Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

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

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • English
  • Tongue
  • Indulge

• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • New
  • Tongue
  • Teeth

• I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Silence
  • Communication
  • Tongue

• Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Feet
  • Tongue

• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  

  Euripides
  • Thing
  • Tongue
  • Wrangle

• The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Tongue
  • Hold It

• Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Tree
  • Shows
  • Tongue

• Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shame
  • Tongue
  • Orators

• He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Doe
  • Tongue
  • Wounds

• 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
  • Answer
  • Faults
  • Tongue

• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Tongue
  • Wounds
  • Mockery

• Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Tongue
  • Eternal Love
  • No True

• The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Truth
  • Tongue
  • Hide

• The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Speak

• There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Littles
  • Vanity

• This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Taste
  • Tongue
  • Sugar

• Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

  

  Moliere
  • Tongue
  • Poison
  • Proof

• If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Culture
  • Justice
  • Injustice

• Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mountain
  • Fit
  • Manners

• It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Reasons
  • Legislature
  • Impassioned

• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Children
  • Brother
  • Citizens

• Those women like to see their tongues dance.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Tongue