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

Opinion Fire Havens Tongue Dry

Book:The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

Source: The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”

Men Found Politics Names Opinion Principles Missing Politician Battle Tongue Representatives Wounded

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”

Knows May Persons Art Silence Quality Opinion Fool Conversation Gains Credit Tongue Wit Silence Is Great Art Eloquence Art Of Conversation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.”

Ifs Men Ideas Opinion Subjects Draws Jokes Add Tongue Bites Footnotes Petunias

Author:Arlene Dahl

“A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.”

Opinion Honest Tongue Drunk

Author:Adele

“I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.”

People Way Feels Long Care Wish Simple Party Brain Half Opinion Cutting Quiet Very Good Tongue Shy Leaving Me Introverted Half Way

Author:Jack White

“In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.”

Men Opinion Wise Injustice Dare Tongue Punishment Merit Rhetoric Unjust

Author:Euripides