Quotes with tongue-tied

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  • Sir Richard Steele Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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  • William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Andrew Lang He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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  • Francis Quarles Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Woody Allen How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Omar N. Bradley I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • A. N. Wilson I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Ellen Glasgow I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anna Held I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Vance Havner I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Abraham Cahan If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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