“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”
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Walt Whitman181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Variously attributed to Lincoln, Elbert Hubbard, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin and Socrates
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
“Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.”
Tony Harrison (1937) British writer
"On Not Being Milton", line 13; from From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems (London: Rex Collings, 1978).
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)
“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I heard, fear-stricken and amazed,
My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See