Lips Quotes

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. View quote
Matthew Arnold
If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. View quote
Douglas Adams
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the color, but to accept God's final decision on where your lips end. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! View quote
Robert Browning
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips. View quote
Ann Coulter
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. View quote
Charles Dickens
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. View quote
Francis of Assisi
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. View quote
Graham Greene
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. View quote
Robert Frost
Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. View quote
Don Marquis
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Language is wine upon the lips. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? (D. T. Suzuki)
... the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. View quote
Brennan Manning
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley