"Rhett Butler: Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss you — although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how."

"Give me a kiss, and 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."

"What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."

"Kiss girls all you want to — it beats the hell out of card games."

"A kiss is a contact, a union, an exchange. It is unknown to certain races and tribes, while others know it and consider it with disgust. They all suffer a loss. A kiss can be a cold formula, or a token of familial relationship or a prelude to the act of love. It can also be a revelation in an unspoken, secret language of feelings that have never been expressed in words."

"It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal."

"Come again: sweet love doth now invite, Thy graces that refrain, To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy."

"True love cannot be changed, Though delight from desert Be estranged. Farewell, farewell But yet or ere I part (O cruel), Kiss me sweet, kiss me sweet my jewel."

"Pain is the kiss of Christ."

"Well, I'm already going to Hell for kissing you, so I may as well take the scenic route."

"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."

"With a Kiss I'd pass the Key."

"Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss."

"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."

"KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer."

"She said out of pity for him, "I shall give you a kiss if you like," but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, "Thank you," and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a kiss."

"But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”"

"And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, “Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.” And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, “Master, master”, and kissed him."

"Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss."

"Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker, Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar!"

"Thou knowest the maiden who ventures to kiss a sleeping man, wins of him a pair of gloves."

"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."

"Young gentlemen, pray recollect, if you please, Not to make appointments near mulberry trees. Should your mistress be missing, it shows a weak head To be stabbing yourself, till you know she is dead. Young ladies, you should not go strolling about When your ancient mammas don't know you are out; And remember that accidents often befall From kissing young fellows through holes in the wall!"

"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."

"Drink to me with thine eyes alone; or if thou wilt, having put it to thy lips, fill the cup with kisses, and so give it me."

"How should great Jove himself do else than miss To win the woman he forgets to kiss."

"Kiss—kiss—thou hast won me, Bright, beautiful sin."

"One kiss the maiden gives, one last, Long kiss, which she expires in giving."

"I rest content; I kiss your eyes, I kiss your hair in my delight: I kiss my hand and say "Good-night.""

"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."

"Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philænis, sins against nature."

"The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My lips the sextons are Of thy slain kisses."

"Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age."

"A soft lip, Would tempt you to eternity of kissing!"

"Drink to me only with thine eyes And I'll not ask for wine Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I will pledge with mine."

"Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me."

"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!"

"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."

"The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt."

"Kisses honeyed by oblivion."

"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part."