Mouth Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Mouth


Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Herrick—The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.	1
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth. Lyly—Midas.	2
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. Theobald’s reading is “mind.” Pope changed “mouth” to “mind.”	3
Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin, (Some bee had stung it newly). Suckling—A Ballad Upon a Wedding. St. 11.	4
With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red; Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lippes that bled. William Warner—Albion’s England. Bk. VIII. Ch. XLI. St. 53.	5
As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded is her crimson mouth. Oscar Wilde—La Bella Donna della Mia Mente.	6