#tongue

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#conversation #get #go #i #other

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. ↗

— William Drummond

#child #everything #expresses #loudly #love

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. ↗

— Euripides

#soul #swore #tongue #twas

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deceiving #employed #injustice #made #may

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#dry #fire #haven #i #much

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#measures #sing #song #stirring #tongue

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ↗

— Voltaire

#make #natural #natural right #our #pens

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! ↗

— Emma Watson

#big #going #half #hermione #i