LIPS QUOTES III

quotations about lips

Lips quote

But when lips' speech mute lips have ratified,
And our hearts' music is intensely blent,
I'll lay me on thy lap, and cry--Content!

THOMAS WADE

"Contentment", Mundi et Cordis


Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

GEORGE SANDYS

The Song of Solomon


There is life in the lips of true lovers.

OWAIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


thick lips
devouring drink and women
an elemental force
like Balzac done by Rodin

MARTIN GRAY

Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems


Vermilion lips, well shaped, a smiling mouth, beautiful white teeth, an elastic step and plump cheeks, charm at eighteen.

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


A quiet smile played around his lips,
As the eddies and dimples of the tide
Play round the bows of ships.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Building of the Ship"

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Lips moulded in love are tremulously full of the glowing softness they borrow from the heart, and electrically obedient to its impulses.

GRACE GREENWOOD

Greenwood Leaves: a Collection of Sketches and Letters


Her lips are roses, overwashed with dew.

ROBERT GREENE

"Menaphon's Eclogue", Greene's Arcadia


How much the lips express all can tell; they are curled by pride or anger, drawn thin by cunning, smoothed by benevolence, and made placid by effeminacy; fine lips indicate exquisite susceptibilities.

DR. PORTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Heart on her lips and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

LORD BYRON

Beppo

Tags: Lord Byron


Saith the lover of his mistress: The rose is disgraced by the redness of her cheeks, and the juice of the grape desireth to resemble the moisture of her lips.

IBN MATRÛH

attributed, Day's Collacon


She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

CHINUA ACHEBE

"Misunderstanding", Collected Poems

Tags: Chinua Achebe


Her lippes, erst like the corall redde,
Did waxe both wan and pale.

ANONYMOUS

"Fair Rosamond", Strange Histories, or Songs and Sonnets of Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Lords, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen


Lips like the carmine's ruddy glow.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

"The Ghoul", Honey and Gall: Poems


O Love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Fatima

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


Her eager sense delighted, fondly sips
Th' ambrosiac honey of her lover's lips,
Who while his love-tale telling, roses speaks.

JOHN CADWALADER M'CALL

"The Troubadour", The Troubadour and Other Poems


My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet