Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Now you courtly dames and knights,
That study only strange delights,
Though you scorn the home-spun gray
And revel in your rich array;
Though your tongues dissemble deep
And can your heads from danger keep:
Yet for all your pomp and train,
Securer lives the silly swain.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor’s edge invisible.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)