"Give it an understanding, but no tongue."
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"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!"
"On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride."
"While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head."
"Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible."
"RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."
"See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced."
"See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!"
"So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute."
"In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence."
"Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough."
"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity."
"It hurts not the tongue to give fair words."
"Done to death by slanderous tongue"
"My love's more richer than my tongue."
"The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues."
"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."
"This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues."
"My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better."
"The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not."