“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
“Oh what lies lurk in kisses!”
“A kiss may ruin a human life.”
“I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.”
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”
“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.”
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
“But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
“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.”
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.”
“He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.”
“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.”
“A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.”
“The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.”
“The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?”
“What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?”
“The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before...”