Tongue Quotes
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
Elizabeth Wein
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Lord Byron
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To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.
Charlotte Bronte
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Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.
David Wojnarowicz
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Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.
Hannu Rajaniemi
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
William Gibson
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If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch
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I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else.
Bedrich Smetana
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The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
William Shakespeare
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One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
William Wordsworth
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When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
Ernesto Illy
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Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
Wilkie Collins
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
Robert Farrell Smith
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
Black Francis Pixies
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
Homer
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Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.
Carrie Jones