Quotes: Tongue

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Give us that grand word “woman” once again, and let’s have done with “lady”; one’s a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one’s a word for lackeys.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.