Lipstick Quotes

“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”
― Gwyneth Paltrow

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”
― Deb Caletti, The Queen of Everything

“Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”
― Frank Zappa

“Oh, come on Em." He stopped walking and looked me in the eyes. His own were dark and shiny. "You know how I feel about you," he muttered.
"I do?"
He stepped closer and whispered, "When you're around, music plays in my head."
My eyes welled. "Music," I repeated softly.
"Well, you know." He grinned. "It's the Jaws theme. Da dum. Da dum.”
― Jennifer Jabaley

“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups.

By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the woman who sat and sipped and lived life. By the mark she leaves behind. Some people read tea leaves and others can tell your future through the lines on your palm. I think I’d like to read lipstick marks on coffee mugs.

To learn how to differentiate yearning from satiation. To know the curve of a deep-rooted joy or the line of bottomless grief. To be able to say, this deep blue red you chose and how firmly you planted your lips, this speaks of love on the horizon. But, darling, you must be sure to stand in your own truth. That barely-there nude that circles the entire rim? You are exploding into lightness and possibilities beyond what you currently know. The way the gloss only shows when the light hits it and the coffee has sloshed all over the saucer? people need to take the time to see you whole but my god, you’re glorious and messy and wonderful and free. The deep purple bruise almost etched in a single spot and most of the cup left unconsumed? Oh love. Let me hold the depth of your ache. It is true. He’s not coming back. I know you already know this, but do you also know this is not the end? Love. This is not the end.

I imagine that I can know entire stories by these marks on discarded mugs. Imagine that I know something intimate and true of the woman who left them. That I could take those mugs home one day and an entire novel worth of characters would pour out, just like that.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Lips are the outward sign, the emblem of desire, and lipstick is the ink in which we graffiti that message on our smile, our pout and pucker. When a girl blows a man a kiss she is sending him a piece of her soul.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“Ladies, if you truly want your man to be successful, never ever underestimate the power of a lipstick, sexy lingerie, and high heels.”
― Lebo Grand

“ladies, don't be a woman of simple taste particularly in the way you look, or at least keep that to the minimum. You are a goddess, after all. Stop trying to look all humbled or modest. You've got to look and smell like a goddess who, in my opinion, is a woman that is constantly in touch with her own sensuality, which also means she's always on top of her game.”
― Lebo Grand

“Don't let the fear of sinning be greater than the passion of living.”
― Lebo Grand

“Being a goddess is a divine calling for women of substance.”
― Lebo Grand

“There's power in the words that come out of your mouth. Now imagine those words coming out of your red lipsticked mouth. They have even more power.”
― Lebo Grand

“Make up, lipstick, nail polish, high heels, sexy lingerie are all some of the tools that can help keep the portal of sensual into your relationship opened.”
― Lebo Grand

“I bought plum blossoms more for the name than for the color; I buy lipstick that way, too. In other words, if it sounds like a poem, I'll take it.”
― Dorothea Grossman

“I...love my curves and clothes and shoes; I love the way adrenaline from dancing or love-making reaches my cheeks. I love my long hair and the way his fingers feel running through it. I like to touch my lips and look at them look in several different shades of lipstick And yup...I love the color pink.”
― R.B. O'Brien

“Ignite the spirit of excellence in your man through your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“That’s my mamma—no problem is so bad a little gravy won’t cure it. She led me into the kitchen. “After a good hot breakfast, and a little lipstick, you’ll feel much better.” Gravy and lipstick. All a girl needs to make it through.”
― Susan M. Boyer, Lowcountry Boil

“Nothing beats a little red lipstick for banishing the blues.”
― Heather Babcock, Filthy Sugar

“One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed up well. We liked to have an impact. When we were done, the lipstick went back into some mother's Fendi handbag. We watched her apply it, unaware. That was satisfying.”
― Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

“Liv applied cherry red lipstick in her rearview mirror with the precision of experience, her brand of war paint to give her confidence today.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Captured Memories

“One cannot win a woman's heart just with love, sex, and respect until one would not buy for her the lipstick, perfume, and flowers from time to time. Otherwise, a serious conflict exists.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Makeup often makes a woman seem like two women.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often makes a woman look like another woman; and/or like she is another woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often makes a man look like he is cheating, not behaving himself, by making his woman look unlike herself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around us other girls suddenly bloomed. In Kelly's version, the girls burst, blousy peonies after the first hot summer night. In mine, after seven days and seven nights of rain, these girls became dandelions while we remained green clumps of crabgrass. Kelly and I knew what we needed. Lips that looked pink, wet, and just licked. Sally Campbell's lips had started to look that way at the beginning of fifth grade. Sally was pretty, and pretty girls were always ahead of the rest of us. Sally's lips and also her mouth smelled of strawberry bubblegum. Kelly and I were jealous of both the shine and the scent. In order to make us feel better, I told Kelly that the word "Sally" tasted of pumpkins, without the brown sugar or the cinnamon. Just a squash.
Sally, nonetheless, set the example for us. Lips that could be seen from across the classroom we understood were desirable, and gloss for them has to be our first acquisition. Kelly begged her mother, Beth Anne, and then resorted to a promise of future weight loss for a shade of pink called Flamingo Paradise, which Beth Anne picked out for her. Beth Anne, at the time, didn't pay attention to Kelly. Beth Anne completely ignored the fact that her only daughter had asked her for lip gloss, strawberry-bubblegum-flavored. Flamingo Paradise was lipstick, the kind that my grandmother Iris wore. It went on creamy but soon became cracked and dry. The only flavor it gave to our lips was something that also belonged to Iris: talcum powder mixed with a crushed vanilla cream wafer.”
― Monique Truong, Bitter in the Mouth

“I brought a hand to my cheek and watched them go. But I didn’t wipe away the lipstick; for the moment, it was all that I had.”
― Stanley Wheeler, Smoke

“Try the Color Me Coral." Turning, he cast an expert eye over Sylvie. "For you, definitely a rose. Two swipes of Bloomin' Marvelous, and boom. Greta Garbo."
"And I thought my work involved magical illusions.”
― Lucy Parker, Battle Royal

“One cannot win a woman's heart just with love, sex, and respect until one would not buy for her lipstick, perfume, and flowers from time to time. Otherwise, a serious conflict exists.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Now, I believe it is time for the groom to get ready." He points toward the back pew. "Suit's in the bag there. Private room is just a little ways down the hall. Go get pretty--but take it easy on the lipstick this time.”
― Nicole Fox, Midnight Sanctuary

“I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die