#tongue

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ↗

— Hermione Gingold

#fighting #her #idea #masculine #tongue

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

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#afterwards #altogether #bent #chosen #desired

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#courage #fit #free #great #our

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

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#between #ears #enough #given #her