Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

“Sir Toby Belch. Pourquoi, my dear knight?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek. What is “pourquoi?” Do, or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O had I but followed the arts!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)