- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tongue Quotes
On sharp words and the edge they never lose.
Several lines here return to the same image: a sharp tongue behaves like a tool that only grows keener the more it gets used, unlike a temper, which is said never to soften with age. This page collects quotes built around that comparison. Related reading continues on Speech quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
- Bite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been known not to bite my tongue.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020