"Where should one use perfume?"
a young woman asked.
"Wherever one wants to be kissed,"
I said.
~ Coco Chanel
"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."
~ George Eliot
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
~ Emil Ludwig
"Where one drop of blood drains a castle of life, so one kiss can bring it alive again."
~ Sleeping Beauty
"A kiss is the shortest distance between two."
~ Henny Youngman
"Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words."
~ Margaret Mitchell
"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them."
~ Mae West
"There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving,
present one; the stolen, or the mutual one;
the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow;
the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
~ Thomas C. Haliburotn
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
~ Thomas Carlyle
"You may conquer with the sword,
but you are conquered by a kiss."
~ Daniel Heinsius
"The moment eternal - just that and no more -
When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
~ Robert Browning
"The decision to kiss for the first time
is the most crucial in any love story.
It changes the relationship of two people
much more strongly than even the final surrender;
because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
~ Emil Ludwig
"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting,
that last glance of love
which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."
~ George Eliot
"If this be love, don't speak; kisses are all that's needed."
~ Author Unknown
"Why every one as they like;
as the good woman said when she kissed her cow."
~ Jonathan Swift
"Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had."
~ Sara Teasdale
"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."
~ Lord Tennyson
"O love! O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."
~ Alfred Tennyson
"And if you insist on knowing my bliss
I'll tell you this
If you want to know what the reason is
I'll only smile when I lie, then I'll tell you this
(Because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
(Because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life."
~ Hall & Oates
"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
"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
Valentine Love Poems
