Lips Quotes
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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
Saint Augustine
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And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.
Sarah Palin
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Wilfred Owen
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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
Emily Dickinson
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The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.
Carolyn Custis James
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My lips are huge, I'm Mangelina Jolie.
Michael Clifford
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A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
Kate Morton
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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.
Lois McMaster
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She leaned in, and kissed her Marid gently, sweetly. She tried to kiss him the way she’d always thought kisses would be. His lips tasted like the sea.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini
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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
John Ruskin
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This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Eileen Wilks
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I like the feel of your name on my lips.
John Michael Montgomery
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I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!
Barnabas
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
Herodotus
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Ernest Hemingway
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
Rumi
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His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.
Teresa Medeiros
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
Scott Westerfeld
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Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That’s a crime against humanity right there.
Carrie Jones
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One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.
Elisabeth of Wied