A Quote by Jonathan Swift

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Jonathan Swift

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Ears Tongues Walls

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

Stephen King

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Elvis Presley

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Edward Dyer

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Plautus

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

William Shakespeare

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

Madeleine L'Engle

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

Elvis Presley

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

John of Damascus

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Bob Dylan

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

Mildred D. Taylor

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

Alexis De Veaux

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.

Jan Koum

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Jeanette Winterson

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.