A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Kiss: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

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; and my true lip— C. V. 3.
Hath virgin'd it e'er since. Very good; well kissed! an excellent courtesy.— D. ii. 1.
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. T. S. iii.— T. S. iii. 2.
Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.— R. III. i. 2

Kisses, Cold

He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana; a nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.— A.Y. iii. 4.
And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.— A. Y. iii. 4.

Expressive

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.— H. IV. PT. I. iii. 1
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