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Tag Name "Tongue" (1023)

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I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
Truman Capote
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Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
Tryon Edwards
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
Tryon Edwards
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It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Anne Spencer
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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Anne Sexton
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bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
Anne Sexton
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
Umberto Eco
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The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.
Umera Ahmed
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Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.
Anne Mallory
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No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.
Uthman ibn Affan
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Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.
Jane Hirshfield
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Anne Bradstreet
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I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
Anna Held
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And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.
Vasily Grossman
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Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
Anna Akhmatova
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Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this, said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.
J. K. Rowling
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The pen is the tongue of the soul as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Miguel de Cervantes
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May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.
Anne Royall
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Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
Ann Landers
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Victor Hugo
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
Vikram Seth
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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.
Angela Carter
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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