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Quotes About Lips

It wasn't a kiss, human, so don't get excited." She sputtered in outrage. "I don't know what putting your lips on someone else's mouth means for your people - whatever they are - but humans call that a kiss." "Congratulations, then. You made out with a hellhound.
~ Larissa Ione
If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.
~ Lauren Bacall
But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster.
~ Lauren Myracle
Lovers taste the lips on the tree of the smile. (Amoureux goûtent les lèvres - Sur l'arbre du sourire.)
~ Charles de Leusse
One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux corps.)
~ Charles de Leusse
The contract of love signs itself on the lips. (Le contrat de l'amour Se signe sur les lèvres)
~ Charles de Leusse
Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us.
~ Charles Dickens
Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed
~ Charles Dickens
Papa is a preferable mode of address', observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. You will find it serviceable, in the formation of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in company - on entering a room, for instance - Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism.
~ Charles Dickens
It was no great gift, for there was mighty little wine left; but Signor Cavalletto, jumping to his feet, received the bottle gratefully, turned it upside down at his mouth, and smacked his lips.
~ Charles Dickens
snowflakes fall from the sky in peppermint perfection — i kiss you with quivering lips but cold is not the reason — you set my winter heart on fire and keep me warm all season
~ Terri Guillemets
Ink kisses dripping crimson words and with blood-red lips leaves prints on her finest poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
Les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Ay say aye. I affirmly swear to it that it rooly and cooly boolyhooly was with my holyhagionous lips continuously poised upon the rubricated annuals of saint ulstar.
~ James Joyce
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
~ Isabella Bird
He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
All women are lips, nothing but lips.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
~ Roman Payne
Are these the duties I required? I called for the heart and spirit and you bring nothing but the carcass of duty. Should I receive this?" "The Lord says These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Isaiah 29:13
~ Thomas Watson
The Kybalion as follows: "Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide." And again: "When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom." But their customary attitude has always been strictly in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism, also in The Kybalion: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.
~ Three Initiates
Because every time you said my name, it would touch your lips." His voice lost its hard edge, grew as dark and smoky as his gaze. "Like a kiss.
~ Connie Brockway
At least let me now deceive myself with illusions so as not to feel my empty life. And yet I came so close so many times. And yet how paralyzed I was, how cowardly; why did I keep my lips sealed while my empty life wept inside me, my desires wore robes of mourning? To have been so close so many times to those sensual eyes, those lips, to that body I dreamed of, loved. To have been so close so many times. September 1903
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
Many of the snowflakes, he had told her, were tiny elves who kissed your face with icy lips before melting on your warm skin.
~ Cornelia Funke
En otros movimientos de los labios participan músculos distintos, como los «que llevan los labios a un punto; otros que los aplastan, otros que los vuelven hacia atrás; otros que los enderezan; otros que los tuercen y otros, al final, que los devuelven a su primera posición».
~ Walter Isaacson