A Quote by William Shakespeare

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

William Shakespeare

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Cheek Errand Tell Than Tongue

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.

Duff McKagan

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Mick Jagger

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Red Smith

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

Craig Revel Horwood

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Carole Radziwill

We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.

Roger Taylor

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Richard Peck

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Bode Miller

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Flannery O'Connor

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Brad Paisley

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

John Schlesinger

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

Alice Levine

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

Eliza Scanlen

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.