LIPS QUOTES
quotations about lips
I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
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
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
I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.
M. F. MOONZAJER
A Moment With God
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
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
As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded is her crimson mouth.
OSCAR WILDE
La Bella Donna della Mia Mente
Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
What bargains may I make still to be sealing?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
JOHN LYLY
Midas
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
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
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
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
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