Lips Quotes
2194 Lips quotes by 1254 unique authors
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Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,'…
— Gail Carson Levine
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But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its…
— Khalil Gibran
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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,…
— Sarah Vowell
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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a…
— Anna Akhmatova
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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned…
— Emily Dickinson
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When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord,…
— C.S. Lewis
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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
— Unknown Author
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Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing…
— Jim Carroll
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
— Plutarch
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Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
— Carl Sandburg
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His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/…
— Walt Whitman
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While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who…
— Anna Quindlen
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Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need…
— Terry Pratchett
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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like…
— Janet Fitch
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And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
— Edmond Rostand
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Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt…
— James Joyce
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Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him…
— Michael Chabon
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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
— Anne Rice
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Lips Quotes
1,254 authors contributed a total of 2,194 Lips Quotes, led by these top contributors: