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"
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
I am a man of unclean lips.
BIBLE
Isaiah 6:5
Lips are the most sensual organ we are allowed to expose.
ANONYMOUS DERMATOLOGIST
Ebony, Apr. 1991
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
HOWARD GORDON
Be Not Thy Father's Son
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