Tongue Quotes
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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 -
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
Rex Stout -
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
William Shakespeare -
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Pythagoras -
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
William Shakespeare -
Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation
Katy Rose -
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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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
David Abram -
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton -
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
William Shakespeare -
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Jonathan Swift -
Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.
Weihui Zhou
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
Jerry Bridges -
Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus -
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
Virginia Woolf -
A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer -
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
William Arthur Ward
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
Cato the Younger -
The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Thomas Carlyle -
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Seneca the Younger