
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
Source: Paradise Lost
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
““Tomorrow?”
“Sh.” She put her hand across his lips. “Never say the word!””
Source: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 12
“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 82.
During the Larry King-Karla Faye Tucker exchange, Tucker never actually asked to be spared.
1990s
Source: "Devil May Care" by Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106.
Qui baise feme et plus n'i fait,
Des qu'il sont sol a sol andui,
Dont quit je qu'il remaint en lui.
Feme qui se bouche abandone
Le sorplus molt de legier done.
Source: Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Line 3860.
Oh no! we never mention her, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Variant: "Oh, no, we never mention him".
Psychæ; or, Songs on butterflies &c http://books.google.com/books?id=M2IIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Oh+no+we+never+mention+her+Her+name+is+never+heard+My+lips+are+now+forbid+to+speak+That+once+familiar+word%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage (1828).
“From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey.”
I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)