LIPS QUOTES

quotations about lips

Lips quote

I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice

Tags: William Shakespeare


Sweet is the discourse that cometh from pretty lips.

D. AB EDMWNT

attributed, Day's Collacon


You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

SCOTT WESTERFIELD

Goliath


I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.

M. F. MOONZAJER

A Moment With God


Lips shook
Like a rose leaning o'er a brook,
Which vibrates though it is not struck.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

"A Vision of Poets", The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Her lips were like pink petals on a rainy day.

TED BERNAL GUEVARA

Days of Slint


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Kiss me till our lips will be so numb
They will not know if they are mine or yours.

A. M. KLEIN

"Escape", Complete Poems


Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

JOHN LYLY

Midas

Tags: John Lyly


Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
What bargains may I make still to be sealing?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Venus and Adonis


As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded is her crimson mouth.

OSCAR WILDE

La Bella Donna della Mia Mente

Tags: Oscar Wilde


The lips of those we love are sweet to us in life, and sacred in death.

MARIA L. CHARLESWORTH

attributed, Day's Collacon


And in the lamplight, soft and still,
I behold your lips with a fiery thrill.

JOHN LARS ZWERENZ

"In the Lamplight", Selected Poems


She had two lips like strawberries, and the seeds gave her kisses texture. I preferred kissing her over two scoops of vanilla ice cream.

JAROD KINTZ

This Book Has No Title


A man's lips are never sealed so tight that a kiss can't melt them.

GEORGE HENRY MILES

Mary's Birthday; Or, The Cynic


Kiss someone like kissing is the only way you have to communicate. There is no conversation. There is no sex. There are only two sets of lips that are ravenous to be recognized and treasured.

ROBERTO HOGUE

Real Secrets of Sex


And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Les Fleurs du Mal

Tags: Charles Baudelaire


Her lips were like the soft ridges of dunes in the desert at sunset; like the crests of waves meeting in the frothy rush to shore; like the folded wings of courting birds.

GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Shantaram: A Novel


Oh, ma lady's lips am like de honey,
Ma lady's lips am like de rose;
An' I'm jes like de little bee a-buzzin'
'Round de flower wha' de nectah grows.

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

"Ma Lady's Lips Am Like De Honey", Fifty Years and Other Poems


Lips, however rosy, must be fed.

OVID

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Ovid