“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
— E.M. Forster, book Howards End
Source: Howards End
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea" by E.M. Forster?
E.M. Forster200
English novelist 1879–1970Related quotes
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Joe Jones
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Hercules and Iole
22nd February 1823) Leander and Hero see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
1st March 1823) An Old Man over the Body of his Son see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
“The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind