The 17 Best Quotes about lips (2025)

01

“An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.”

Madeleine Miller

author

The Song of Achilles

book

ugly

man

face

sharpness

habits

running

flickering

tongues

lips

speaking

eyes

afraid

being lucky

killing

concepts

02

“The words, ‘I love you’ become nothing but noise. But that’s why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn’t before.”

Iain Thomas

author

I Wrote This for You

book

kissing

lips

loving deeply

concepts

03

“Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don’t move your lips. Don’t make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh?”

Bo Burnham

author

Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

book

magic

reading

silence

lips

sounds

listening

weird

concepts

04

“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”

Rudy Francisco

author

swear

lips

touching

tasting

years

life

loving

relationships

concepts

05

“His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

book

Ford Prefect

character

theories

understand humans

lips

talking too much

thinking

concepts

06

“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding”

Three Initiates

author

The Kybalion / A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

book

lips

wisdom

understanding

concepts

07

″‘The enchantment of the first bite,’ she said. ‘It can only be undone by the touch of a salted tear on the parted lips of the spell-bound.‘”

Tom McNeal

author

Far Far Away

book

Ginger Boultinghouse

character

enchanted

undone

tears

lips

concepts

08

“The word no, so short, so easy to say, a child’s sound, a noise more than a word, a short exhalation of air: all he had to do was part his lips, and the word would come out, and—and what?”

Hanya Yanagihara

author

A Little Life

book

easy

noises

air

lips

words

language

concepts

09

“I have no use for divine patience -My lips are now burning and everywhere.I am running from every corner of this earth and skyWanting to kiss you.”

Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez

author

Hafiz On Love

book

divine patience

lips

burning

love

romance

running

earth

sky

wanting

kissing

concepts

10

“Her lips were red, her looks were free,Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

author

Rime of the ancient mariner

book

lips

death

blood

concepts

11

“Her lips were red, her looks were free,Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

author

Rime of the ancient mariner

book

lips

death

life

nightmares

concepts

12

“She turned her back and put the water on to boil. But not before I got a glimpse of her lips tightening. An ugly grimace. My sugar-and-spice grandmother with such a nasty look. I feel guilty. But I couldn’t ask, Nanna, do you and Mamma hate each other? How could I say such a thing?”

Silvana Gandolfi

author

Aldabra

book

Nana

Nonna Eia

characters

magic

fiction novel

mothers

lips

lips tightening

ugly

ugly grimace

nasty look

concepts

13

“The shape of lips. The shape of ships. The shape of water when it drips.”

Dr. Seuss

author

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff

book

shapes

lips

ships

dripping water

concepts

14

“Once more he stepped into the street and to his lips again laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane. Before he blew three notes (so sweet and soft, and yet so cunning), there was a rustling that seemed like a bustling of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling. Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, and, like fowls on a farm when barley is scattering, out came the children running.”

Robert Browning

author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

book

Pied Piper

character

streets

lips

cunning

feet

shoes

hands

clapping

tongues

chattering

children

running

concepts

15

“His odd coat from heel to head was half of yellow and half of red, and he himself was tall and thin, with sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, and light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, no tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, but lips where smiles went out and in: there was no guessing his origin.”

Robert Browning

author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

book

Pied Piper

character

coat

tall

eyes

beards

lips

Smiles

guessing

odd

concepts

16

“Into the streets the Piper stepped, smiling first a little smile, as if he knew what magic slept in his still pipe all the while, for there his secret spells were kept. Then blowing soft, his lips he wrinkled, and green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled like candle flames where salt is sprinkled.”

Robert Browning

author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

book

Pied Piper

character

streets

smiling

magic

secrets

spells

lips

candle

eyes

blow

concepts

17

“When a golden girl can winPrayer from out the lips of sin,When the barren almond bears,And a little child gives away its tears,Then shall all the house be stillAnd peace comes to Canterville.”

Oscar Wilde

author

The Canterville Ghost

book

Virginia

character

golden

girls

to win

prayer

lips

sin

little

houses

peace

concepts

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