Tongues Wagging Quotes

#1. The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

Marie Corelli

#2. After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.

Josemaria Escriva

#3. Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.

Noreena Hertz

#4. Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

Angelica Hopes

#5. If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#6. Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.

Craig Silvey

#7. Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. If everyone knows what there is to know, it stops a lot of tongues from a lot of useless wagging.

Stephen King

#9. Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]

William Shakespeare

#10. During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

Jackson Katz

#11. People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

Aesop Rock

#12. Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

Marion Roach

#13. Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

Jacques Audiard

#14. Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

Agatha Christie

#15. A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Lewis B. Smedes

#16. I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

Dan Stevens

#17. ..The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and soon the tongues were wagging like flags in the wind....

David Fulmer

#18. You put God first in your life and didn't try to gain everything for yourself, and now God has given you your heart's desire.

M.H. Strom

#19. Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

Hugh Hammond Bennett

#20. RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

#21. Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules.

The Mirror Of Maybe

#22. I believe in gay marriage.

David H. Koch

#23. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

Thorne Smith