William Shakespeare Tongue Quotations

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

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

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

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

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

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

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

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble

And whatsoever else shall hap tonight, Give it an understanding, but no tongue

No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the