Tongue Quotes
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
William Shakespeare
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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
William Shakespeare
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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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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
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Jonathan Swift
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
Alice Cooper
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
Coco J. Ginger
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Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently in Mexico than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"
Sandra Cisneros
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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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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
Miriam Toews
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele
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When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
Edwin Paxton Hood
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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman
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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
Homer
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
George Horace Lorimer
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Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
Norton Juster
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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
Catherynne M. Valente
