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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"
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))
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.
The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.
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).
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))
Be embraced, ye millions! This Kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the arch of stars A loving Father surely dwells.
friedrich von schiller— Stanza 5. (An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785))
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 can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind Kiss.
— Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene 1.
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)
The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
Pauline Kael— "A Note on the Title"
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).
For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad;His Kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.
sara teasdale— The Kiss
Purple Haze, all in my brain, lately things just don't seem the same, actin' funny, but I don't know why, 'scuse me while I Kiss the sky.
— Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze" from Are You Experienced (1967).
