Sayings about Lips
Love talks, even with closed lips. ~ German Proverbs
Before you let your voice be heard, first lick your lips. ~ Indonesian Proverbs
Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to your friends but give your lips only to a woman. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back. ~ Beninese Proverbs
Donkey’s lips don’t fit onto a horse’s mouth. ~ Chinese Proverb
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips. ~ Danish Proverbs
Only men with thick lips should smoke a cigar. ~ Mexican Proverbs
It is too late to learn to swim when the water is up to your lips. ~ Danish Proverb
Loose lips sink ships. ~ American Proverbs
If your mouth were a knife, it would cut off your lips. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum. ~ Beninese Proverb
Quotations about Lips
Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet. ~ Francois Nars
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. ~ James Beattie
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. ~ William Shakespeare
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ~ Francis of Assisi
There is life in the lips of true lovers. ~ G. Owain
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile. ~ Judith Guest
The lips that are red, give kisses that ravage. The soul, and though savage, they soothe. ~ Aarestrup
Lips in whose rosy labyrinth, when she smiled, the soul was lost. ~ Thomas Moore
Language is wine upon the lips. ~ Virginia Woolf
Her lips are roses over-washed with dew. ~ Robert Greene
A lip like Persuasion’s, calling on us to kiss it. ~ Anacreon
Her lips blush deeper sweets. ~ James Thomson
Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing. ~ Dorothy Parker
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Her lips, though they were kept close with modest silence, yet, with a pretty kind of natural swelling, seemed to invite the guests that looked on them. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips. ~ Marie de France
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. ~ William Shakespeare
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ~ Matthew Arnold
Lips moulded in love are tremulously full of the glowing softness they borrow from the heart, and electrically obedient to its impulse. ~ Sara Jane Clarke
‘Twas not my lips you kissed , but my soul ~ Judy Garland
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~ Margaret Mitchell
Oh! but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling, never before were mine so strangely willing. ~ Frank Loesser
An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes. ~ Rudolph Valentino
Her lips, whose kisses pout to leave their nest. ~ Lord Byron
A man had given all other bliss, and all his worldly worth for this, to waste his whole heart in one kiss upon her perfect lips. ~ Alfred Tennyson
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
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes. ~ Lord Byron
He kissed me hard, as though he’d pluck up kisses by the roots that grew upon my lips. ~ William Shakespeare
