Lips Quotes - Page 12
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.67, Courier Corporation
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press
George MacDonald (1867). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.103
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics
George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.357, Harvard University Press
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.59, Del Rey
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.118, Anchor
Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.28
The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.
Song: Stiff-Necked Fools, Album: Confrontation, 1983
Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group
Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press
Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”
William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.229, Heinemann
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'