"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?" - ROBERT BROWNING, A Toccata of Galuppi's

"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, SR., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

"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, To Celia

"Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Doctor Faustus

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." - MISTINGUETT, in Theatre Arts

"Dear as remember'd kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others."
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Princess