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  •   Kiss till the cow comes home.

    - Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
    c.1610  The Scornful Lady (published1616), act 2, sc.2.

  • Salute one another with an holy kiss.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans16:16.

  •    Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss Of blankets.

    - Rupert Chawner Brooke
      'The Great Lover'.

  • The moth's kiss, first! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up.

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatic Lyrics,'In a Gondola'.

  • Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

    - Robert Burns
      'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza1.

  • Gin a body meet a body Comin thro'the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

    - Robert Burns
      'Comin thro' the rye', stanza 2.

  • I'll seize the rosebuds in their perfumed bed, The violet knots, like curious mazes spread O'er all the garden, taste the ripened cherry, The warm, firm apple, tipped with coral berry. Then will I visit with a wandering kiss The vale of lilies and the bower of bliss, And where the beauteous region doth divide Into two milky ways, my lips shall slide Down those smooth alleys, wearing as I go A track for lovers on the printed snow.

    -Thomas Carew
      'A Rapture'.

  • Alcohol islike love† The first kissismagic, thesecond is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

    - Raymond Chandler
      The Long Good-Bye, ch.4.

  •    Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto  n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.

    - Rube  n pseudonym of Fe  lixRube  nGarc|a Sarmiento Dar|  o
      Prosas profanas,'Yo persigo una forma†' (translated as'I seek a form†',1922).

  • You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

    - Bernard DeVoto
    The Hour.

  •    Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

    - Michael Drayton
      Idea, sonnet 61.

  • Give me the plumpVenetian, fat, and lusty, That meets me soft and supple, smiles upon me As if a cup of full wine leaped to kiss me.

    - Dario Fo
    c.1621 The Wild-Goose Chase, act1, sc.2.

  • I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
      The Gondoliers, act 2.

  • For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb upon his knees the envied kiss to share.

    -Thomas Gray
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.21^4.

  • With this kiss I wed thee once again.

    -Thomas Heywood
    c.1607  A Woman Killed  with Kindness, sc.16.

  • She stood breast high amid the corn, Clasped by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

    -Honorius of Autun
      'Ruth'.

  • You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

    - Herman Hupfeld
      'As Time Goes By', sung by Dooley Wilson in the film Casablanca (1943).

  • Iwant loyalty.I want himto kissmyass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.

    - Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
    Of a potential assistant. Quoted in David Halberstam The Best and the Brightest (1971), ch.20.

  • Drink to me, only, with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.

    - Ben Jonson
      The Forest,'To Celia'.

  • For Love's sake, kiss me once again, I long, and should not beg in vain, Here's none to spy, or see; Why do you doubt, or stay? I'll taste as lightly as the Bee, That doth but touch his flower, and flies away. Once more, and (faith) I will be gone: Can he that loves, ask less than one?

    - Ben Jonson
    The Underwood,'A Celebration of Charis', no.7 (published1640).

  •    Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?

    -John Keats
      Endymion, bk.1, l.835^42.

  • Ist die Liebe das Beste im Leben, so ist in der Liebe das Beste der Kuss. If love is the best thing in life, then the best part of love is the kiss.

    -Thomas Mann
      Lotte im Weimar.

  •    Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.

    - Christopher Marlowe
    c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.1.

  • When women kiss it always reminds one of prize- fighters shaking hands.

    - H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
      Chrestomathy, ch.30.

  • Kiss me, Hardy.

    - Horatio,Viscount Nelson Nelson
       Attributed, as he lay dying in the cockpit of the Victory during the Battle of  Trafalgar, 21 Oct.

  • The oldlike childrentalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

    - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
       Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

  • 'I saw you take his kiss!' ''Tis true.' 'O modesty!' ''Twas strictly kept: He thought me asleepat least, I knew He thought I thought he thought I slept.'

    - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
      TheAngel in theHouse, bk.2,The Espousal, canto 8, prelude 3,'The Kiss'.

  • There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between ushard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

  • Oh heav'nly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.

    - Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
    Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 73.

  • Everything presses onwhilst thou art twisting that lock,see! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Tristram toJenny.Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.8.

  • I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads,'TheTriumph ofTime'.

  • O Love,O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'Fatima', stanza 3.

  •    And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.2, added song, l.6^9.

  • I kissed her slender hand, She took the kiss sedately; Maud is not seventeen, But she is tall and stately.

    -Tennyson
      Maud, pt.1, sect.12, stanza 4, l.424^7.

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