Quotes with tongue

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bret Harte If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been, More sad are those we daily see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bancroft In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Charlotte Brontë It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • William Shakespeare Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William Shakespeare My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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