quotes about Lips
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
-- Adam Savage -
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.
-- Ai Yazawa -
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There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.
-- Alexandra IvySource : Alexandra Ivy, Angie Fox, Tami Dane, Jess Haines (2014). “The Real Werewives of Vampire County”, p.12, Zebra Books
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
-- Alfred Austin -
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.
-- Amanda Hocking -
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
-- Angela Kinsey -
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We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.
-- Anis Mojgani -
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
-- Anya Seton -
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
-- Aristotle -
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.
-- Arthur Quiller-CouchSource : "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...
-- Arthur RimbaudSource : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press
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I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
-- Aulus GelliusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
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I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!
-- BarnabasSource : "Fictional character: Barnabas Collins". "Dark Shadows", www.imdb.com. 2012.
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Is everything a joke to you?†I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.†“Like what?†“You.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180)
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.
-- Beryl Markham -
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
-- Beth Ditto -
Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
-- Bill Cosby -
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
-- Billy SquierSource : Song: You Know What I Like, Album: Don't Say No
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Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
-- Bob DylanSource : Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
-- Brooks Stevens -
Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?
-- Buddy HollySource : Song: Heartbeat
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And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.
-- C.C. Hunter -
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The lips know only shallow tunes
-- Calvin MillerSource : Calvin Miller (1990). “A Symphony in Sand”, W Publishing Group
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Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
-- Carl Sandburg -
The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.
-- Carolyn Custis James -
I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.
-- Cassandra Clare -
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He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.
-- Cecil Frances AlexanderSource : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.28
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
-- Charles Dickens -
"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 -
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my lips never know my problem they just always smile
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
-- Claire Danes -
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
-- Craig Thompson -
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
-- Dagmara Dominczyk -
Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
-- David Deida -
Her lips said 'no', but her eyes said 'read my lips'.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.
-- Dawson Trotman -
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But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
-- Denise Richards -
Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.
-- Dennis McKenna -
Just remember, I am not going anywhere,†he said, still watching her lips. “And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.
-- Diana Pharaoh FrancisSource : Diana Pharaoh Francis (2010). “Crimson Wind”, p.314, Simon and Schuster
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Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.
-- Drake -
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I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth
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And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
-- Edmond Rostand -
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
-- Emile Zola -
Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
-- Emily Dickinson -
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A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
-- F. F. BosworthSource : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.155, Chosen Books
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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.
-- Faith Hill -
It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.
-- Fanny Crosby -
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
-- Fantasia Barrino -
There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.
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I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
-- Frances TrollopeSource : Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press
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The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
-- Frank Lebby Stanton -
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Death had no lips, but it was smiling
-- Franny BillingsleySource : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.49, A&C Black
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He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.
-- Gail Carriger -
And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
-- Gayle Forman -
He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.
-- Gena Showalter -
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
-- George Eliot -
I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.
-- George SandysSource : George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349
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Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
-- Georgette Heyer -
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I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.394
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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
-- Gillian Flynn -
Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
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And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.
-- Heather Brewer -
If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.
-- Henry Allen Ironside -
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
-- Henry ConstableSource : 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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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 -
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 -
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 -
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
-- Howard GordonSource : Howard Gordon (2011). “Be Not Thy Father's Son”, p.66, CCB Publishing
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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 MarionSource : Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
-- Isaac Marion -
Came to . . . see you.†“But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.†“Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.†Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
-- Isaac Marion -
His chin grazed the top of my head and then his lips brushed across my forehead. “I’m not going anywhere,†he said. “I’ll be right here when you wake up, sweetheart. I promise.
-- J. Lynn -
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You’re the world to me,†I whisper onto her lips. “I hope you never forget that.†“I’ll never forget,†she whispers back.. “But if I ever do, for whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me.†...“Always.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
Maybe you should get rid of me,†I whisper onto his lips. “Never,†he says, kissing me once softly. “You’re mine for as long as you breathe.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
Hey, what are you doing, little one? You want more? You are just too much . . . you . . . oh, no . . . not the quivering lip . . . oh, no.†Nalla let out a giggle. “Outrageous! You want more, and you know you’re going to get what you want because of The Lip. Jeez, you’ve got your father wrapped around your little finger, don’t you.
-- J.R. Ward -
You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.
-- J.R. WardSource : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2735, Penguin
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Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.
-- Jack Hyles -
Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
-- Jack LaLanne -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
-- Jan Hus -
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 -
Have you met my boyfriend?†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 -