Tongues

Famous quotes containing the word tongues:

“They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I cannot flatter; I do defy
The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
In my heart’s love hath no man than yourself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Now you courtly dames and knights,
That study only strange delights,
Though you scorn the home-spun gray
And revel in your rich array;
Though your tongues dissemble deep
And can your heads from danger keep:
Yet for all your pomp and train,
Securer lives the silly swain.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)