LIP

Related Subjects: Face, Kiss, Mouth, Speech, Tongue

1. Those cherries fairly do enclose
   Of orient pearl a double row,
   Which when her lovely laughter shows,
   They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow.—THOMAS CAMPION, Cherry-Ripe
   

2. Oh that those lips had language!—COWPER, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
   

3. Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.—JOHN LYLY, Midas
   

4. Lips, however rosy, must be fed.—Proverb
   

5. Take, O, take those lips away,
   That so sweetly were forsworn.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
   

6. O, how ripe in show
   Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
   

7. Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
   For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
   

8. Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
   Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
   

9. Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
   Juliet: Ay, pilgrim lips that they must use in prayer.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

10. And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
    Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
    Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

11. Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
    In the contempt and anger of his lip!—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

12. Keep a stiff upper lip.—Traditional