"Slip of the tongue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pitied the man sincerely, had kissed him with almost equal sincerity, for he was not unhandsome; it pleased her to be in a way and for a time his protector, and above all there were four thousand pounds to be handled by some one. Now through a slip of the tongue and a little feminine desire to give a little, not too much, pain she had lost the money, the blessed idleness and the pretty things, the companionship, and the chance of looking outwardly as ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... the magistrate was looking abstractedly over her head and did not appear to notice her slip of the tongue. He was thinking. It gave ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray
... the beginning to the end of life everything in the mental activities of man has a cause and a meaning, and that these causes and meanings may be traced back to infancy. No slip of the tongue is accidental; it has purpose and this purpose can be traced by psychoanalysis. So with hysteric phenomena: the paralyses, the sensory changes, all the queer and startling things represent something of importance and of value ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... if you please! I simply do not understand your language, and even less can I condone your haste! Safely wrap it up, you said. What do you mean by that? Safe for whom? And "obviously" insane—was that a slip of the tongue, sir, or are you trying to force ...
— We're Friends, Now • Henry Hasse
... you go, Miss Habberton," I said breathlessly, "without letting you know how contrite I am at a slip of the tongue which—" ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... slip of the tongue, my pet, an involuntary but not unnatural association of ideas. As for the Ephesian Diana, she reminds me of an animated pine-cone, with that eruption of breasts all over her, and I can assure you of your having no particular reason to be jealous of ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell |
