“I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air”
William Shakespeare
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy
“Beauty’s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”
“Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Wilfred Owen
“Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.”
Sammy Davis Jr.
