Tongue Quotes

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

George Eliot
- Punishment
- Tongue
- Reward
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

Rudyard Kipling
- Kiss
- Poets
- Fools

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.

Richard Lederer
- Writing
- Tongue
- Spokes
At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Human
- Tongue
- Catch
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
- Good
- Evil
- Gun
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Homer
- Satisfaction
- Tongue
I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Kate Cary
- Feelings
- Tongue