"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."

Soul, Tongue

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."

Exlpore more Soul quotes

"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Soul, Man, Worth

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Soul, Eye, Unconscious

"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Soul, Rainbow, Beautiful, Inside

"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Soul, Divinity, Life, Light

"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

Soul, Memory, Expectation, Emotion

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Soul,

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Soul, Optimism, Ageing, Sun

"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Soul, Mind, Hunger, Neglect

"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Soul, Virtue, Nothing, Politeness

Explore more quotes by Euripides

"The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love."

Psychology

"Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right."

Philosophy

"We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement."

Philosophy

"The wisest men follow their own direction."

Philosophy

"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?"

Philosophy

"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."

Love

"Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll."

Emotion

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience."

Philosophy

"I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

Relationship

"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

Ethics