LIPS QUOTES IV

quotations about lips

Lips quote

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


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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Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

LAURENCE HOPE

"Lost Delight", India's Love Lyrics: Collected & Arranged in Verse


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


And all my kisses on thy balmy lips as sweet,
As are the breezes breath'd amidst the groves
Of ripening spices on the height of day:
As vigorous too.

APHRA BEHN

Abdelazar

Tags: Aphra Behn


O naked flower
of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown
or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries
you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans
of a childhood groping among its reveries
to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ

"Hérodiade", Selected Poems


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

MARTIN GRAY

Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems


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


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


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

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


Her lips are like two budded roses,
Whom ranks of lilies neighbor nigh,
Within which bounds she balm encloses,
Apt to entice a deity.

THOMAS LODGE

Rosalynde; or, Euphues Golden Legacy


Lips like the carmine's ruddy glow.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

"The Ghoul", Honey and Gall: Poems


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


Her lips are like the cherries ripe
That sunny walls from Boreas screen.
They tempt the taste and charm the sight.

ROBERT BURNS

"On Cessnock's Banks"

Tags: Robert Burns


All women are lips, nothing but lips.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We

Tags: Yevgeny Zamyatin


Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita

Tags: Vladimir Nabokov


Her lips were like nourishment to him, her moans like an intoxicating wine.

MARGARET FALCON

Triangle


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


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

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon


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