Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“I cannot flatter; I do defy
The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
In my heart’s love hath no man than yourself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)