Lips Quotes IV

LIPS QUOTES IV

quotations about lips

Heart on her lips and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

LORD BYRON

Beppo

And all my kisses on thy balmy lips as sweet,
As are the breezes breath'd amidst the groves
Of ripening spices on the height of day:
As vigorous too.

APHRA BEHN

Abdelazar

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A woman's lips are a type of door into voluptuousness.

JAMES WADDELL

Erotic Perception: Philosophical Portraits

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A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Shall this nectar
Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips,
That open like the morn, breathing perfumes,
On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd?
They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance--
Be often kissed and tasted.

PHILIP MASSINGER

The Parliament of Love

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Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

LAURENCE HOPE

"Lost Delight", India's Love Lyrics: Collected & Arranged in Verse

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Lips, like hanging fruit, whose hue
Is ruby 'neath a bloom of blue.

THOMAS GORDON HAKE

"The Exile", Poems

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Like the petals of the Rose
When the dews their scent disclose,
Soft as velvet tho' they be,
Fragrant of the Dawn and thee,
Yet thy lips are sweeter far
Than all garden Roses are.

CHARLES WILLIAM CAYZER

"Altar of Roses", By the Way of the Gate

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In another poem, a woman's lips are compared to a series of botanical and meteorological phenomena -- "the fresh rose-bud", "the thorn". Though the lips display a "ripen'd softness" and are indeed "sweet", they are objects of aesthetic beauty, rather than of exceptional flavour. Sight, rather than taste governed the sensual experience of these lips.

KAREN HARVEY

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture

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If I could choose my paradise,
And please myself with choice of bliss,
Then I would have your soft blue eyes
And rosy little mouth to kiss;
Your lips, as smooth and tender, child,
As rose-leaves in a coppice wild.

THOMAS ASHE

"No and Yes", Songs Now and Then

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Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita

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Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

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A woman's lips are a key to her character, and to-day lips have a firmer and more resolute line, for they shape words of command, laugh at danger, and with a smile suppress weariness and pain.

ANONYMOUS

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I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

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Her lippes, erst like the corall redde,
Did waxe both wan and pale.

ANONYMOUS

"Fair Rosamond", Strange Histories, or Songs and Sonnets of Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Lords, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen

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But when lips' speech mute lips have ratified,
And our hearts' music is intensely blent,
I'll lay me on thy lap, and cry--Content!