Tongue Quotes - Page 24

• Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.169-70.

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• I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moon, World, Liquid

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

  Jane Roberts

  Eye, Feet, Toes

  Jane Roberts (1984). “God of jane: a psychic manifesto”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

  Donita K. Paul

  Brain, Wags

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonFire: A Novel”, p.73, WaterBrook

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• I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

  Sarah Kane

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

  Patricia Briggs

  Lying, Sleep, Doe

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.32, Penguin

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• If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

  Sylvia Plath

  Song, Cutting, Bird

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Want

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

  Evan Esar

  Tired, Talking, Body

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• Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

  Philip Sidney

  Feet, Defense, Use

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• It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

  Euripides

  Heart, Commitment, My Heart

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• Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Childhood, Speak

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

  Horace Mann

  Expenses

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• He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Complaining, Wit

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Pathos, Wit, Consistent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

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• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Witty, Littles, Sticks

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163

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• True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
  What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Advantage, Wit

  "A Selection from the Poetry of Alexander Pope".

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• Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

  Mark Van Doren

  Wise, Wisdom, Wall

  Mark Van Doren (1939). “Collected Poems, 1922-1938”

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Levels, Wit And Humor, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Your wits make others witty.

  Catherine the Great

  Witty, Wit

  Letter to Voltaire. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Loise Roberts, 1922.

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• The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

  Winston Churchill

  Foundation, Inheritance, May

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.444, Da Capo Press

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Gentleman

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• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Kindness

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  Hippocrates

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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