LIPS QUOTES IV

quotations about lips

Lips quote

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

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

King Arthur

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There, the brows of mild repression--there, the lips of silent passion,
Curved like an archer's bow to send the bitter arrows out.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Lady Geraldine's Courtship

Tags: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Lips, like hanging fruit, whose hue
Is ruby 'neath a bloom of blue.

THOMAS GORDON HAKE

"The Exile", Poems


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


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


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

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

MARGARET FALCON

Triangle


A woman's lips are a type of door into voluptuousness.

JAMES WADDELL

Erotic Perception: Philosophical Portraits


Her lips were like living fire. He could not take his own away. He forgot everything.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The Magician

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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


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


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


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


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


All women are lips, nothing but lips.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We

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

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


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

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita

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