Top 1200 Sharp Tongue Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

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

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

You need a very sharp team working with you to still be the same person all the time.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Rose is in red, But never in blue, Sharp as a thorn, Fights like one too.

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth. He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind; ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country hers refused to ope. Ungrateful land, to its own injury Nurse of his fate! Well too does this instruct, That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And 'midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice, That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

You have to be brave and ask the questions on the tip of your tongue.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.