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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. — Bela Lugosi

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once. — Peter St. John

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady. — Isidore Of Seville

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue. — William Wordsworth

The taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. — William Francis Henry King

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. — Mao Zedong

Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. — Julie Garwood

The early bird gets the worm that should have slept in. — J.S. Davey

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. — John Rhys-Davies

Nothing says, 'I like you' like your tongue in their mouth. — Kristen Ashley

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. — Marvin Bell

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. — Joe Namath

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light. — Sjon

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. — Oscar Wilde

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. — Will Rogers

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek. — Lucy Lawless

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. — Cato The Elder

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. — Ptahhotep

Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue. I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you. — H.G.Wells

I Anoint my tongue by fire. Every evil head rising up against me, I strike you down, in the name of Jesus, somersault from your body. — Ademola Adejumo

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Proverbs 18:21 — Joyce Meyer

My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory — Dorothea Benton Frank

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. — Xun Zi

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue. — Moses

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power. — Charles Capps

With my tongue buried deep in her sweet cunt, I mumble, Yes, you're definitely the girl for the job. — Ella Dominguez

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics

Tongue and expression plays a big role in twisting the words and make the life hell. — Kishore Bansal

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. — John Schlesinger

Two glittering eyes peered at the three young men and the catawyld clicked the back of its tongue in warning.
"I hate these things," Bracy growled — Nicole Sager

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours. — Karen Davison

Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet? — Virgil

(My husband's tongue-in-cheek definition of positive is "being wrong at the top of your voice.") If — Kathy Ide

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. — David Ogilvy

I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek. — Tyson Fury

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up! — Lilith Saintcrow

The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents. — Anita Diamant

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. — Brad Paisley

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly. — Poul Anderson

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then. — Girl Talk

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. — John Gay

205. "Endure every difficulty and hardship with a dilated heart, attract spirit and eloquent tongue, in remembrance of the merciful."~ — Abdu'l- Baha

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. — Kelis

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek. — David Coverdale

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. — Edward Norton

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. — Christopher Walken

He kissed me deeply. Just how I wanted and needed. He explored every part of my mouth, violating me in the sweetest way with a maple syrup tongue. — S. Walden

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. — Shreya Ghoshal

Oh, I'm sure you just slipped and fell, and your tongue landed in her mouth. Right? Happens to the best of us. — Rachel Vincent

I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely. — Catherynne M Valente

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. — Nostradamus

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. — Tennessee Williams

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. — Alexander McCall Smith

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. — Robertson Davies

The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison. — Sorin Suciu

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue. — Al Yankovic

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. — William Shakespeare

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another. — Leonardo Da Vinci

And death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. — Anonymous

The only tool your pussy needs is my tongue. It's here whenever you want it, and it works in a "VARIETY" of ways. — Whitney Gracia Williams

In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue. — Edmond Rostand

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. — The Tru Sum

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue. — Dagmar Godowsky

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. — John Wycliffe

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again. — Ruth Ozeki

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy. — Andre Norton

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. — Madame De Stael

A secret is safer in the heart than on the tongue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity. — William Shakespeare

Sticking your tongue in an electrical socket is dangerous- not to mention painful. -Marco — Katherine Applegate

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. — William Shakespeare

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. — Thomas Southerne

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. — Ivan Panin

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today. — Terri Ann Armstrong

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. — Robert M. Hensel

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much! — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. — El-P

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. — Jennifer Ellison

Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins. — Richard Jeni

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own. — Jane Hirshfield

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tongue in cheek, Donald said, "Milord, I thought she was safely ensconced in your tent. How is it that you keep misplacing her? — Delilah Devlin

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue. — Uthman Ibn Affan

What is the answer, Evan? Ms Granger asked.
Giraffe, I wanted to answer. It was on the tip of my tongue. Giraffe.
This was in math class, — David Levithan

To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument - nothing more. — Charlotte Bronte

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth. — Katherine Heigl