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Quotes About Lips

Imagine a pair of woman's lips," Mogor whispered, "puckering for a kiss. That is the city of Florence, narrow at the edges, swelling at the center, with the Arno flowing through between, parting the two lips, the upper and the lower. The city is an enchantress. When it kisses you, you are lost, whether you be commoner or king.
~ Salman Rushdie
When he sipped the champagne she teased him, surely gods should not partake of alcohol, and he answered with a line he had once read in an interview with the Aga Khan, O, you know, this champagne is only for outward show, the moment it touches my lips it turns to water. After that it didn't take long for her to touch his lips and deliquesce into his arms.
~ Salman Rushdie
a creature with white skin and green hair and bright, bright red lips
~ Salman Rushdie
Coconnas : ...et que pour être querellé , j'aime mieux encore l'être par de jolies lèvres comme les vôtres que par une bouche de travers comme la sienne.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Eddie's edge of cynicism caused a smile to play at his lips. "You'd have to pay when you came before him." "I'm before him now," the liveryman said solemnly. "I've come to understand I'm before him each and every minute.
~ Alice Hoffman
Nous nous chérirons nuit et jour : « Nos âmes sont deux fleurs d'amour, « Nos lèvres deux calices. »
~ Alphonse Daudet
(So,when kiss Spring comes we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss lips because tic clocks toc don't make a toctic difference to kisskiss you and to kiss me)
~ e. e. cummings
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. All that was there, in the lids of his brown eyes, his smooth skin, his lower lip pushed out. There was coiled energy inside.
~ E. Lockhart
A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
~ Edmond Rostand
Like the best wine… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
~ Anonymous
Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
~ Anonymous
Maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
~ Anonymous
In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
~ Anonymous
I love red or deep purple lips for events.
~ Cara Delevingne
I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.
~ Lindy Booth
My mother said, kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone
~ Francesca Lia Block
Evil has ways of surprising one. Suddenly it turns round and says: "You have misunderstood me," and perhaps it really is so. Evil transforms itself into your own lips, lets itself be gnawed at by your teeth, and with these new lips -- no former ones fitted smoothly to your gums -- to your own amazement you utter the words of goodness.
~ Franz Kafka
Language is wine upon the lips.
~ Virginia Woolf
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
~ Patrick MacGill
His jutting cheekbones and his eyes suggested a Mongol ancestry - one of our conquerors! But the open, tremulous lips had lost their hardness: fear civilizes...
~ Romain Gary
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
She hadn't dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid's lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.
~ Maggie Osborne
Boris eats a whole couch. 'Ah,' he says, licking his lips, 'just like the couches Mother used to bake!
~ Andy Griffiths
Ah, woe! thy lips are chill, And still. How changed in fashion Thy passion! Who has done me this ill?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe