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Kisses: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is the attribute of God.— SYDNEY SMITH — Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 29.
A sense of justice is a noble fancy.— TEGNER — Frithjof's Saga. Canto VIII.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.— DANIEL WEBSTER — On Mr. Justice
Story, 1845. On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.— WORDSWORTH — Lines Composed Above
Tintern Abbey.
Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow years darklier roll, Grown wiser, the experienced soul Will own as dearer far than they The lips which kiss the tears away.— ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN — Kisses.
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks, Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — A King and No King. Act IV. Sc. 4.
Kiss till the cows come home.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Scornful Lady. Act II. Sc. 2.
Remember the Viper:-'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms; Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.— BLOOMFIELD — Nancy. St. 4.
** * And when my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. S.— H. H. BOYESEN — Thy Gracious Face
I Greet with Glad Surprise. First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since it grew more clean and white.— E. B. BROWNING — Sonnets from the
Portuguese. Sonnet XXXVIII. I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.— E. B. BROWNING — The Lay of the Brown Rosary. Pt. II.
Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.— E. B. BROWNING — Drama of Exile. Sc. Farther on, etc. L. 992.
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 186.
Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.— BYRON — The Bride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 11.
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.— BYRON — The First Kiss of Love. St. 7.
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 — Colin's Kisses.
The Parting Kiss. Song VI. Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.— DRAYTON — Sonnet.
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. L. 251 from end of Bk.
The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)-— Shakespeare — Heroic Love. Act V. Sc. 1.
Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.— HEINE — Book of Songs. New Spring. Prologue. No. 25. St. 2.
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde 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 kisse afresh, as when we first begun.— HERRICK — Hesperides. To Anthea.
What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet sement, glue, and lime of love.— HERRICK — Hesperides. A Kiss.
Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,- A pure and holy love-light, and forsake The angel for the woman in a kiss, At once I wis, My soul will wake!— VICTOR HUGO — Come When I Sleep.
A soft lip, Would tempt you to eternity of kissing!— BEN JONSON — Volpone; or, the Fox. Act I. Sc. I.
Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.— BEN JONSON — The Forest. To Celia.
When she kissed me once in play, Rubies were less bright than they; And less bright were those which shone In the palace of the Sun. Will they be as bright again? Not if kiss'd by other men.— WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR — Rubies.
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.— LELAND — In the Old Time.
Says he "I'd better call agin;" Says she-"Think likely, Mister!" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An'-Wal, he up an' kist her.— LOWELL — The Courtin.
The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours. S.— MACAULAY — Lays of Ancient Rome. Virginia. L. 138.
I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.— JOAQUIN MILLER — England. 1871.
Introduction. One kiss the maiden gives, one last, Long kiss, which she expires in giving.— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Paradise and the Peri. L. 200.
How should great Jove himself do else than miss To win the woman he forgets to kiss.— COVENTRY PATMORE — De Natura
Deorum. Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true I am just as rich as you; And for every kiss I owe, I can pay you back, you know. Kiss me, then, Every moment and again.— J. G. SAXE — To Lesbia.
Thou knowest the maiden who ventures to kiss a sleeping man, wins of him a pair of gloves.— SCOTT — Fair Maid of Perth. Ch. V.
Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker, Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar! C.— SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. VI. 5.
And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 17.
And steal immortal blessing from her lips; Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 36.
But, thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.— Shakespeare — Pericles. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 78.
By my troth I kiss thee with a most constant heart.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 292.
I can express no kinder sign of love, Than this kind kiss.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 18.
I'll take that winter from your lips.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 5. Sc. 5. L. 23.
It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 286.
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 205.
Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh?— Shakespeare — Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 287.
O, a kiss, Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus, Act V. Sc. 3. L. 44.
Or ere I could Give him that parting kiss, which I had set Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 33.
Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 91.
Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were foresworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 1.
Teach not thy lips such scorn; for they were made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 172.
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 12.
This done, he took the bride about the neck And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack That at the parting, all the church did echo. S.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 179.
Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, As seal to this indenture of my love.— Shakespeare — King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 19.
We have kiss'd away Kingdoms and provinces.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 10. L. 5.
Why, then we'll make exchange; here, take you this, And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 6..
As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lover's lips.— SHELLEY — Prometheus Unbound. Act IV.
Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word, that kiss shall all thoughts else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive. X.— SHELLEY — Adonais. St. 26.
My lips till then had only known The kiss of mother and of sister, But somehow, full upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth,-I kissed her.— E. C. STEDMAN — The Door-Step.
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.
Dialogue II. And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 19.
Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.— TENNYSON — Fatima. St. 3.
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.