Tongue quotes
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"I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go."
"When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue."
"A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue."
"Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them."
"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."
"Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?"
"Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak."
"Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat."
"Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest."
"Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt."
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."
"O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed."
"Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair."
"Love's best habit is a soothing tongue"
"What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?"
"I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."
"Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit."
"Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use"
"It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue."
"Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises."
