100+ Lips Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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

topic: Rose, Red, Lips

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Art, Lips, May, Written Word

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Love, Eye, Lips

Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.

- Hilari Bell

topic: Mean, Soldier, Lips, Ping

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

- Howard Gordon

source: Howard Gordon (2011). “Be Not Thy Father's Son”, p.66, CCB Publishing

topic: Scarves, Lips

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

- Isaac Marion

source: Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Zombie, Lips, Irony, Smile Because

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

- Isaac Marion

topic: Tugging, Lips, Feels, Sensations

Came to . . . see you.â€ â€œBut I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.â€ â€œDon't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.â€ Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. â€œGod you're a cheeseball. But seriously, Râ€”

- Isaac Marion

topic: Home, Bye, Lips

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

- Jack Hyles

topic: Lips

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Lips, Hips, Lifetime

The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.

- Jake Owen

topic: Girlfriend, Location, Lips, Discreet

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 an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

- James Joyce

topic: Brain, Lips, Sound, Kissing Him

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Running, Lips, Hook, Dry Lips

What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.

- Jan Hus

topic: Blood, Taught, Lips

This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Fall, Ties, Lips

Have you met my boyfriend?â€ There. That was a doozy. His eyes narrowed, and his lips thinned into a tight line. Yep, Noah was a mood kill for both of us.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Eye, My Boyfriend, Lips

My heart lifted, and a matching grin curved my lips. He wanted to see me again. Maybe he really did like me after all. I felt like doing a happy dance, but of course, I was way too cool for that. I'd at least wait until I got back to my hotel room, alone, where no one would see.

- Jennifer Estep

topic: Heart, Waiting, Lips, Too Cool

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

- Jensen Ackles

topic: Girl, Faces, Lips, Preschool

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

- Jeremy Brett

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Bravery, Lips, Sometimes, Stiff Upper Lip, Dangerous Things

Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips.

- Jessica Day George

source: Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of Glass”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Kissing, Long, Lips

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: Winter, Skins, Lips

Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

- Jill Shalvis

source: Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.100, Hachette UK

topic: Lips, Second Best, Keep Smiling, Just Keep Smiling, Kissing You

I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Karma, Thinking, Lips, Goes Around Comes Around

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

- Jim Carroll

topic: Play, Violence, Lips, Sensuous

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

- Jim Leyland

topic: Example, Lips, Lip Service

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

- Joel Salatin

topic: Government, Invasion, Lips, Invasion Of Privacy

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Sweet, Lips, Belief

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

- John Addington Symonds

source: John Addington Symonds (1968). “The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884”

topic: Lips, Praise

Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?

- John Barlas

topic: Sound, Lists, Lips

He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.

- John G. Shedd

source: "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705, 2006.

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Lips, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

- John Lyly

topic: Doors, Mouths, Lips

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

- John Mayer

source: Rolling Stone Magazine / iTunes podcast, December 2005.

topic: Trying, Lips, Kind, Really Sad

I like the feel of your name on my lips.

- John Michael Montgomery

source: Song: I Love The Way You Love Me

topic: Romantic, Names, Lips

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

- John Ruskin

topic: Song, Firsts, Lips

While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!

- John Trumbull

source: John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

topic: Drinking, Flip, Lips, Quintessence, Pow

Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Music, Eye, Lips

Once I saw Tamala Jones in person, I was like, 'I gotta put my lips on her!'

- Jon Huertas

topic: Lips, Saws, Persons

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

- Jordyn Wieber

source: "Golden Girls Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber Talk Famous Fans and Finding Workout-Proof Mascara". Interview with Rebecca Willa Davis, www.elle.com. August 17, 2012.

topic: Color, Different, Lips, Gloss, Lip Gloss

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Fall, Lips, Surprise

Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Sweet, Lips, Jake, Molding

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

- Judith Guest

topic: Life, People, Lips, Stiff Upper Lip, Ordinary People

Elizabeth, if you want to be kissed, all you have to do is put your lips on mine.

- Judith McNaught