Quotes of Idiom - somelinesforyou

“ For murder, though it have no tongue, will speakWith most miraculous organ. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”

- Henry James

“ For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!". ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Tears are the noble language of eye;And when true love of words is destitute,The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. ”

- Talmud

“ The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! ”

- Lord Byron

“ Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ His tongue is now a stringless instrument. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Poetry is the language of feeling. ”

- W. Winter

“ The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. ”

- Bible

“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ”

- George Orwell

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ”

- Unknown

“ If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. ”

- Jennifer Ellison

“ The wisdom of this world is idiotism. ”

- Thomas Dekker

“ Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment. ”

- Bible
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