Tongue Quotes - Page 39

• Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

  Edmond Rostand

  Heart, Names, Bells

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Ambassadors

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• Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

  Hesiod

  Men, Treasure

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• There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

  Andre Norton

  Enemy, Overcoming, Speech

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.336, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour.

  Menachem Begin

  Memories, Thinking, Hands

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• Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.

  Arlene Dahl

  Men, Ideas, Add

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• Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Music, Sweet, Sacred

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• Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
  A godlike tongue to move a stony heart--
  Methinks it were full well to be apart
  In solitary uplands far away,
  Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
  Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
  Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Dream, Sweet, Moving

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Men, World, Want

  Sara Jeannette Duncan, Thomas E. Tausky (1893). “The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib”, New York : D. Appleton and Company

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• Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

  Thomas Southerne

  Passion, Heart, Soul

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• Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

  Katy Rose

  Giving, Needs, Microphones

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Dream, Taken, Writing

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• ... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

  Gertrude Bell

  Country, Moving, Breathing

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris

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• shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Speaking Up, Refrain

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.30, Indiana University Press

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• And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wiresand the night sky the color of stockings. I stuck out my tongue to taste the skybut could not taste. I inhaled deeplybut could not smell. I used to look to the sky for comfortand now there was nothing, not even a seam, and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground. And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep and the Sorrowful Mother swinging her empty dipper in the darkness, the Sorrowful Mother picking her way through the stars over my roof. And I knew I was nowhere and if I ever took my hands from my ears I would fall.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  "A Hummock in the Malookas (venus waning/apollo waxing his car)". Book by Matthew Rohrer, 1995.

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• There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Cutting, Jail

  "An Interview With Pete Seeger In Beacon, NY". Interview with Pete Mason, nysmusic.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Men, Doors, Dumb

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• Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Eye, Giving, Brain

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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• Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Jealousy, Pits, Flavor

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• I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

  Michael Buble

  Dark, Way, Interviews

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Together

  "Robert Downey, Jr. 'a lot more interesting' when he was on drugs, producer says", www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2015.

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

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Rewards, Pens

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!

  Jessica Chastain

  Teeth, Actors, Gum

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