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There is nothing as sincere as a mother's Kiss.
Saleem Sharma— As qutoed in A Mother's Love: Beautiful, Unconditional, ...and Forever (2017, pg. 273).
The Goddess Fortune is the devils servant ready to Kiss any ones Arse.
william blake— Inscription on Illustrations to Dante "No. 16: HELL Canto 7"
Are you a living princess or her shadow? Let me Kiss your fingers and their rings, and bid you Walk no longer in an unknown age...
stéphane mallarmé— Nurse (Hérodiade (1898))
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed Kiss, This art of writing billet-doux In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
leigh hunt— Love-Letters Made of Flowers
Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous Kiss, as seal to this indenture of my love.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act II, scene 1, line 19.
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— 1791 'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza1.
You must remember this,
A Kiss is still a Kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
— 1931 'As Time Goes By', sung by Dooley Wilson in the film Casablanca (1943).
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 of Time" (1866)
The Kiss of the sun for pardon,The song of the birds for mirth,One is nearer God's Heart in a gardenThan anywhere else on Earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney— "God's Garden" lines 13–16, Poems, by Dorothy Frances Gurney (London: Country Life, 1913)
What is a Kiss? Why this, as some approve:The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick— "A Kiss".
Give me a Kiss, and to that Kiss a score;Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:A thousand to that hundred: so Kiss on,To make that thousand up a million.Treble that million, and when that is done,Let's Kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick— "To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!"
Devouring Famine, Plague, and War,Each able to undo mankind,Death's servile emissaries are;Nor to these alone confined,He hath at willMore quaint and subtle ways to kill;A smile or Kiss, as he will use the art,Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.
james shirley— Poem The Last Conqueror.
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's Kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
wystan hugh auden— After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics (1961) Lines 9-16
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little soon forgotten charities of a Kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— "The Friend. The Improvisatore" (1828).
Most women’s ideal is to not be sexual until nine conditions are met: physical attraction; respect; emotional compatibility; intelligence; singleness; success (or potential ); being asked out; being paid for; and the man risking rejection by initiating the first Kiss…. Men want sex as long as only one condition is met physical attraction.
warren farrell— p. 13. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
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 his knees the envied Kiss to share.
thomas gray— St. 6. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to Kiss it dry.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto I, Stanza 8.
But, thou know'st this, 'tis time to fear when tyrants seem to Kiss.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 2, line 78.
I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to Kiss arse, you know?
— Keith Richards, quoted in BBC NEWS, Entertainment, In quotes: Keith Richards, on news.bbc.co.uk, 4 April 2007.
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betray Our freedom with the Kiss of anarchy.
— Oscar Wilde, in Libertatis Sacra Fames (1881)
Since the invention of the Kiss, there have been five kisses rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The end.
Grandpa— Played by Peter Falk in The Princess Bride (1987).
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— 1619 Idea, sonnet 61.
It's the way that you Kiss, the way that you give back,The way you love me like this -- look at the beauty of that.These are the tangled words of our love, that we both do untie --Same old ways, same old spice, same old paradise.
amber (pop star)— "Same Old Paradise", My Kind of World (2004).
Actually the action called a Kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
yukio mishima— p. 115 (Confessions of a Mask (1949))
She said out of pity for him, "I shall give you a Kiss if you like," but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, "Thank you," and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a Kiss.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 6 (Peter & Wendy (1911))
I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth Kiss on my lips I could not give away.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lay of the Brown Rosary, Part II.
