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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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

Katherine Heigl

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

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.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Hermione Gingold