LIPS QUOTES IV

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Lips quote

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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
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"The Building of the Ship"


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Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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

MARTIN GRAY

Death of Villeneuve and Other Poems


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There is life in the lips of true lovers.

OWAIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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


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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


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Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita


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Tags: Vladimir Nabokov


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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Tags: W. Somerset Maugham


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


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She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

CHINUA ACHEBE

"Misunderstanding", Collected Poems


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Tags: Chinua Achebe


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

DIDEROT

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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


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

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


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Her eager sense delighted, fondly sips
Th' ambrosiac honey of her lover's lips,
Who while his love-tale telling, roses speaks.

JOHN CADWALADER M'CALL

"The Troubadour", The Troubadour and Other Poems


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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


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Music lives within thy lips
Like a nightingale in roses.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus: A Poem


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Tags: Philip James Bailey


Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


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Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

LAURENCE HOPE

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


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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


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All women are lips, nothing but lips.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

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Tags: Yevgeny Zamyatin


Lips like the carmine's ruddy glow.

FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS

"The Ghoul", Honey and Gall: Poems


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