quotations about lips
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Marry Wives of Windsor
Her lips were like a languid purple moth.
PETER NADAS
Parallel Stories: A Novel
Guarding her breasts, her lips she did expose,
To save a lilly she must lose a rose.
GEORGE ETHEREGE
"The Imperfect Enjoyment"
I am a man of unclean lips.
BIBLE
Isaiah 6:5
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
HOWARD GORDON
Be Not Thy Father's Son
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purg'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
Lips are the most sensual organ we are allowed to expose.
ANONYMOUS DERMATOLOGIST
Ebony, Apr. 1991
Lips in whose rosy labyrinth, when she smiled, the soul was lost.
THOMAS MOORE
Lalla Rookh
The memory-haunted well,
Whose waters quench a deeper thirst than thine,
Changed at my lips to sacramental wine.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
"A Family Record", The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poems 2
I want to taste you again Like a secret or a sin
MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES
"Only You"
Her lips like cherries charming men to bite.
EDMUND SPENSER
"Epithalamion", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.
JANE ROGERS
The Ice is Singing