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Lips Quotes - Page 12

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

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

George MacDonald (1867). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.103

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

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

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Song: Stiff-Necked Fools, Album: Confrontation, 1983

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You.

Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press

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'