LIPS QUOTES II
quotations about lips
Her lips, though they were kept close with modest silence, yet, with a pretty kind of natural swelling ... seemed to invite the guests that looked on them.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Lips are like taverns of wine.
BEAUMONT & FLETCHER
attributed, A Dictionary of Similes
Between lips and lips there are cities
of great ash and moist summit,
drops of when and how, vague
comings and goings:
between lips and lips as along a shore
of sand and glass the wind passes.
PABLU NERUDA
"Pact (Sonata)", Selected Poems
God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint -- the same lacquer he uses upon your lips.
JOHN GEDDES
A Familiar Rain
Sweetness drops from your lips, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue.
BIBLE
Song of Solomon 4:11
Lips are ... a big part of a woman's facial expression. We paint them red to attract attention to them, pout them when we are unhappy, and spread them wide when we are happy. Our lips tell everyone who we are and how we feel.
JONI WILSON
The Voice of Success: A Woman's Guide to a Powerful and Persuasive Voice
If the eyes are, indeed, the windows to the soul, then it can be said that the lips are the messengers of the heart.
KARYN SIEGEL-MAIER
"Tips for Lips!", Better Nutrition, Feb. 1999
Who would not rush those lips to meet?
Bless'd envy'd streams, still greater bliss
Attends your warm and liquid kiss.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
"On a Lady's Drinking the Bath Waters", A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes
O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Over the millennia, women have been accentuating their lips for purposes of beauty, courtship, and sexuality. Some societies still go to great lengths to draw attention to the lips. It can be said that the lips are the only exposed sexual organ in our contemporary society, although in some societies this facial region is covered for modesty per local religious customs.
JOE NIAMTU III
"Rejuvenation of the Lip and Perioral Areas", Distraction Osteogenesis of the Facial Skeleton
Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Beauties of Festus
Her lips, whose kisses pout to leave their nest.
LORD BYRON
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
When the lips are opened, we behold the image of the soul.
SIR THOMAS HIGGONS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lips are the gatekeepers of your acoustic hole, namely your mouth.
JONI WILSON
The Voice of Success: A Woman's Guide to a Powerful and Persuasive Voice
Her lips blush deeper sweets.
JAMES THOMSON
The Seasons
May I taste
The nectar of her lip? I do not give it
The praise it merits: Antiquity is too poor
To help me with a simile t' express her:
Let me drink often from this living spring,
To nourish new invention.
PHILIP MASSINGER
The Emperor of the East
I am the tender voice calling away,
Whispering between the beatings of the heart,
And inaccessible in dewy eyes
I dwell, and all unkissed on lovely lips.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
The House of the Titans and Other Poems
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul! see where it flies.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Dr. Faustus
You feel on your lips a kiss
Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
"Romance", Collected Poems
Her lips were like honey, too sweet to be borne.
J. TRACKSLER
Murder at Malafortuna