#tongues

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#direct #fortune #i #i am #indirect

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #men #neither #nor #sad

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. ↗

— John Burns

#characters #clean #collars #come #hands

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. ↗

— Scott Caan

#earrings #get #guys #hollywood #i

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#garbage #jargon #learn #mental #must

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor

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

— Edward Dyer

#ears #eyes #hear #hearts #see

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#delicate #finest #hearts #kind #make