LIPS QUOTES IV

quotations about lips

Lips quote

Shall this nectar
Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips,
That open like the morn, breathing perfumes,
On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd?
They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance--
Be often kissed and tasted.

PHILIP MASSINGER

The Parliament of Love


There is life in the lips of true lovers.

OWAIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.

LAUREN BACALL

To Have and Have Not

Tags: Lauren Bacall


In another poem, a woman's lips are compared to a series of botanical and meteorological phenomena -- "the fresh rose-bud", "the thorn". Though the lips display a "ripen'd softness" and are indeed "sweet", they are objects of aesthetic beauty, rather than of exceptional flavour. Sight, rather than taste governed the sensual experience of these lips.

KAREN HARVEY

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture


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


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


A woman's lips are a key to her character, and to-day lips have a firmer and more resolute line, for they shape words of command, laugh at danger, and with a smile suppress weariness and pain.

ANONYMOUS

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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


Lips like the carmine's ruddy glow.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

"The Ghoul", Honey and Gall: Poems


Lips with such sweetness in their honeyed deeps
As fills the rose in which a fairy sleeps.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

King Arthur

Tags: Edward Bulwer Lytton


Like the petals of the Rose
When the dews their scent disclose,
Soft as velvet tho' they be,
Fragrant of the Dawn and thee,
Yet thy lips are sweeter far
Than all garden Roses are.

CHARLES WILLIAM CAYZER

"Altar of Roses", By the Way of the Gate


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


If I could choose my paradise,
And please myself with choice of bliss,
Then I would have your soft blue eyes
And rosy little mouth to kiss;
Your lips, as smooth and tender, child,
As rose-leaves in a coppice wild.

THOMAS ASHE

"No and Yes", Songs Now and Then


Her lips are roses, overwashed with dew.

ROBERT GREENE

"Menaphon's Eclogue", Greene's Arcadia


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

LORD BYRON

Beppo

Tags: Lord Byron


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


Music lives within thy lips
Like a nightingale in roses.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus: A Poem

Tags: Philip James Bailey


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

MARTIN GRAY

Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems


Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

GEORGE SANDYS

The Song of Solomon


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

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon