"In the timbre of a woman's voice, when it is beautiful, there seem to be mysteriously harmonised all the desires and enchantments both of the spirit and the body."

"Vox faucibus hæsit."

"He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song."

"A voice, a little while ago / still in my heart is singing, / my heart has been wounded / by the song of Lindoro (tr. from Italian "Una voce poco fa / qui nel cor mi risuonò; /il mio cor ferito è già,/e Lindor fu che il piagò.")"

"But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove."

"Better the feet slip than the tongue."

"So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep; To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will."

"Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee."

"My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

"Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."

"From the strife of tongues."

"In her tongue is the law of kindness."

"I should think your tongue had broken its chain!"

"Lingua mali pars pessima servi."

"Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue."

"The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil."

"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."

"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."

"The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue."

"The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge."

"Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?"

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

"My tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp."

"You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me."

"My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."

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

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

"Most of the sins of the children of Adam are on their tongues."

"Speak to me in many voices Make them all sound like one Let me see your sacred mysteries Reveal to me the Unknown Tongue."

"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."

"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"Crying doesn't mean you are [a] good man. It doesn't mean you have a lot of passion. It's about the passion that's within your heart, it's not about your eyes, not about the tears."

"Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone."

"When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep."

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

"Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."

"The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay."

"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept—and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."

"Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair."

"That which matches my tears hurts my heart alike."

"There are bitter tears in human flesh."

"Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!"

"The silver key of the fountain of tears."

"The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry."

"Sweet drop of pure and pearly light; In thee the rays of Virtue shine; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine."

"Behold who ever wept, and in his tears Was happier far than others in their smiles."