“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
William Shakespeare
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
John Milton
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy
“O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!”
Charles Wesley
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
Turkish Proverb
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
Dorothy Parker
