Cheek Quotes

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”

“With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;”

“Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, ...”

“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: ...”

“Love, ... who keepest thy vigil on the soft cheek of a maiden;”

“Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Lock’d together in one nest.”

“Her cheekes are like the blushing clowde
That beautefies Auroraes face,”

“Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”

“And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks! ...”

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“I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;”

“So may thy cheeks’ red outwear scarlet dye,
And their white, whiteness of the Galaxy;”

“Poor Lucrece’ cheeks unto her maid seem so
As winter meads when sun doth melt their snow.”

“Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I’d have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek).”

“  Roses red, Lillies white,
And the cleare damaske hue,
  Shall on your cheekes alight:
    Loue will adorne you.”

“Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek”

“Cheeks neither red nor pale, but mingled so
  That blushing red no guilty instance gave,
  Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have.”

“... On each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid did.”

“Her cheekes like ripened lillies steept in wine,
Or fair pomegranade kernels washt in milke,
Or snow white threds in nets of crimson silke,
Or gorgeous cloudes vpon the Sunnes decline.
• Variant: pomegranade: Pomegranate 1616”

“Her Cheeks so rare a white was on,
No Dazy makes comparison,
    (Who sees them is undone)
For streaks of red were mingled there,
Such as are on a Katherine Pear,
    (The side that’s next the Sun.)”