Kissing

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
-- Anonymous

Don't wait to know a girl better to kiss her; kiss her, and you'll know her better.
-- Anonymous

It's impossible to kiss a girl unexpectedly - only sooner than you thought.
-- Anonymous

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Kiss till the cow comes home.
-- Francis Beaumont
The Scornful Lady, II.ii

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
-- Ingrid Bergman

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
-- Song of Soloman
Bible

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up ...
-- Robert Browning
In a Gondola

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. -- Robert Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of a doubt.
-- Thomas Carlyle

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
-- Robert Dodsley
The Parting Kiss

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?
-- Henry Finck

Afraid that I was going to leave without giving you a goodbye kiss? (1)
        I'd just as soon kiss a wookie! (2)
I can arrange that! ... You could USE a good kiss! (1)
-- Carrie Fisher (2) and Harrison Ford (1)
The Empire Strikes Back

Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smile again.
-- Brete Harte
The Last Galleon

Give me a kiss, add 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

I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.

No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That lately kissed thee.
-- Robert Herrick

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more
He could not help but kiss her and adore.
-- John Keats
Endymion

Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
-- John Keats
Endymion

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
-- Rudyard Kipling
The Gadsbys. Poor Dear Mama

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

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
-- Mistinguette

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
-- Edmond Rostand

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth--and endures all the rest.
-- Helen Rowland

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation.
-- William Shakespeare
Henry IV

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
-- William Shakespeare
Richard III

... a wild dissolving bliss
Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss,
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Revolt of Islam

A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege, and the hypocrite's mask.
To a young girl,
-- V.P.I. Skipper

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
-- Jonathan Swift
Dialogue ii.

Why every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
-- Jonathan Swift
Polite Conversation

O love! O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
-- Alfred Tennyson
Fatima. Stanza 3

A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips.
-- Alfred Tennyson
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

NOW, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
We must separate awhile--Here! take from my lips this kiss.
Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
So long!--And I hope we shall meet again.
-- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. --Oliver Wendell Holmes