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Quotes About Lips

His broad shoulders sloped downward, as if posture were too much to think about with all that was on his mind. His thinning hair was gray and unkempt. He had a broad, flattened nose, like a spatula, and lips as thin as an afterthought. On this hot summer day, he wore a wrinkled white shirt, with sleeves rolled up; a tie hung loosely tied around his fraying collar, and his corduroy pants were in need of laundering.
~ Kristin Hannah
O prophet flowers! with lips of bloom, Surpassing, in their beauty, The pearly tints of ocean shells-- Ye teach me faith and duty.
~ laighton albert
His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.
~ Laini Talyor
Her lips were still moving, whispering the same words over and over. "They were all I could carry. They were all I could carry.
~ Laini Taylor
The eye's perception of texture is pale compared to the lips', and I didn't know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.
~ Laini Taylor
Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.
~ Cassandra Clare
Lips. There was something strangely, delicately indelicate about the word, like a kiss itself.
~ Cassandra Clare
But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Imprint thyself more deeply upon me, thou image of my King, thou, not I, shalt dwell in my soul, in my heart, in my countenance, on my lips, thou, not I, so long as I live, only thou!
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
...his babbling, berry lips...
~ Emily Dickinson
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.
~ Mario Testino
Compared to some Asian countries, I think Koreans like to keep a clean, fresh, and lively look: A well-moisturized face, a light, sheer base, natural, colorless eye makeup, and a slight stain of color on the lips.
~ Claudia Kim
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
~ Doris Lessing
When I was younger, most people thought my lips looked like Tweety Bird's - there were always comments like that from family and neighbors.
~ Lindsey Wixson
Inside the hole, the red lips say, "we all grew up with the same television shows. It's like we all have the same artificial memory implants. We remember almost none of our real childhoods, but we remember everything that happened to sitcom families. We have the same basic goals. We all have the same fears." The lips say, "The future is not bright.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone, Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
Its face crinkled up grotesquely, the eyes narrowing like those of a laughing Buddha, the lips peeling back to expose a sickle of brilliant teeth.
~ Clive Barker
Language is wine upon the lips.
~ Virginia Woolf
Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art, everywhere; a change of some sort had undoubtedly taken place.
~ Virginia Woolf
But language is wine upon his lips
~ Virginia Woolf
How she had loved sound when she was a boy, and thought the volley of tumultuous syllables from the lips the finest of all poetry.
~ Virginia Woolf
Suddenly, gentlemen of the jury, I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning (through the very grimace that twisted my lips) like a distant and terrible sun.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov
~ Vladimir Nabokov