This document is a collection of quotes about kissing from various authors. It includes descriptions of kisses as tender pledges of love, moments of passion and affection, and gestures that speak deeply to the soul without words. Kisses are portrayed as sweet expressions of intimacy that linger long in memory.

1. Kisses Kisses

2. Rodin To A Kiss Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

3. Nikolay Antonov Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passion's birth, and infants' play, Dove-like fondness, chaste concession, Glowing dawn of brighter day.

4. Nikolay Antonov Sorrowing joy, adieu's last action, Ling'ring lips, no more to join! What words can ever speak affection Thrilling and sincere as thine! Robert Burns

5. Nikolay Antonov For twas not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul Judy Garland

6. Nikolay Antonov

7. Francesco Hayez Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted. Edmund Vance Cooke

8. Celeste Welch

9. The Kiss Soon, yes soon, we'll have our chance, To embrace each other in love's dance. A dance which I'll take her hand and show, Klimt

10. Gustav Klimt - Kiss of the Whole World The love she's yet to know. And yes, we'll know it with that kiss, The first look of tender bliss. The hug and warm embrace will say it all,

11. The fear and doubts we've had will fall, Fall from the precipice into the abyss, With that first sweet tender kiss. P. Bere

12. Alexandrovsky

13. Jose Ventura When you kiss me Without uttering a single word You speak to my soul Unknown

14. Dorit Levinstein

15. Picasso

16. 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

17. We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. Peter De Vries

18. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes

19. 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,

20. To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. Robert Herrick

21. Roger Hopkins The first kiss

22. 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. Christian Nevell Bovee

23. Barry Woods Johnston

24. First Kiss Bougeureau 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. Edmond Rostand

25. Aleksey Sokolov

26. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. Mistinguett Nick Fedaeff

27. Steve Lohman

28. 26 July 2010