Lips Quotes

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Glasses, Wind, Cities

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Laughing, Rose, Red

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• The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Kissing, World, Parks

  Patricia Highsmith (2014). “Nothing that Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Strong, Spring, Heart

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• "Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Kissing, Drink

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.217

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• I would that there was nothing in the world
  But my beloved that night and day had perished,
  And all that is and all that is to be,
  All that is not the meeting of our lips.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, World, Lovers

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.435, Simon and Schuster

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• one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
  With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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  For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Beauty, Kindness

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Tongue, Language

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• Lips are the fingerprints of love.

  Tyler Shields

  Fingerprints

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015

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• While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

  E. M. Forster

  Heart, Tea, Culture

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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  A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

  Hugh Sidey

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Eye, Kissing, Love Is

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “Kisses”

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• Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

  Bret Harte

  Life, Smile, Pain

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.112, VM eBooks

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• Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146

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• Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

  Marie de France

  Speak

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Treasure, Kingdoms

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.77

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• The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Russell Lowell, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.55

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• I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Running, Rain, Believe

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• My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

  Henry Constable

  Rose, Red, Shame

  Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”

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• My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

  Adam Savage

  Advice, Spinning, Fierce

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, People, Appreciate

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• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  Ann Hood

  Girl, Mother, Brother

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