There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Ben's tongue is like sunscreen. . . It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
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.
The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic. . . only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will, I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.
As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.