Plummer Scrooge Alas, the quiet of Dickens' London home is shattered by the unwelcome arrival of his
silver-tongued father (Jonathan Pryce) and mother (Ger Ryan).
The
silver-tongued duo won hearts the world over with their hilarious interviews and memorable quotes ("It isn't too complex really, just A to B as fasht as you can go.
Cyrano puts his
silver-tongued talents at the disposal of Christian - vocally and also in the letters he later sends her daily from the battlefield.
I'm not surprised at that statement from this
silver-tongued orator, but I am amazed that there are still so many people willing to let him make fools of them.
But we've done our best to collect the most noteworthy quotes of 2014, straight from the mouths of Texas politicos, be they
silver-tongued or tongue-tied.
We all agreed that, although we know he was no oil painting, he was a
silver-tongued devil and that his legendary ability to woo a woman must have been in how he made her feel.
He goes on a journey of self-discovery with a
silver-tongued circus mouse and learns how to fly with his freakish lug-holes.
Radio 2's
silver-tongued DJ, Ken Bruce, has celebrated the biggest audience of his career - an astonishing 7.
They are evil,
silver-tongued beasts who will lull you into a false sense of security, then bang, make you look like a total numpty.
SILVER-TONGUED Martin O'Neill hopes some of that Irish charm will work its magic on Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner this week.
When fellow conman Honest Sibanda, 39, of Hull, who received three years, tried his
silver-tongued approach on a cab driver, his would-be prey promptly flagged down a police car.
Robert Lehane, William Bede Dalley:
silver-tongued pride of old Sydney, Ginnindera Press, Canberra, 2007, 423 pages; ISBN 978 1 74027 437 1.
