Romantic love quotes

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
- Robert Browning -
 
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 -
 
Kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
- E. E. Cummings -
 
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman -
 
Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up ...
- Robert Browning -
 
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
- Robert Browning -
 
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 -
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of a doubt.
- Thomas Carlyle -
 
...then I did the simplest thing in the world.
I leaned down... and kissed him.
And the world cracked open.
- Agnes de Mille -
 
One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
- Robert Dodsley -
 
Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?
- Henry Finck -
 
Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smile again.
- Brete Harte -
 
You may conquer with the sword,
but you are conquered by a kiss.
- Daniel Heinsius -
 
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
- Ernest Hemingway -
 
Give me a kiss, add 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 b
- Robert Herrick -
 
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That lately kissed thee.
- Robert Herrick -
 
You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss...
- Herman Hupfeld -
 
She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more
He could not help but kiss her and adore.
- John Keats -

Now a soft kiss Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
- John Keats -
 
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.
- Rudyard Kipling -
 
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!
Come Helen, come give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.
- Christopher Marlowe -
 
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.
- Mistinguett -
 
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
 
I never thought that love could feel like this - then you changed my world with just one kiss.
- N Sync -
 
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 -
 
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifthand endures all the rest.
- Helen Rowland -
 
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss herwhen, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
- Helen Rowland -
 
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation.
- William Shakespeare -
 
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
- William Shakespeare -
 
... a wild dissolving bliss
Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss,
- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
- Song of Soloman -
 
The sunlight claps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
 
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Jonathan Swift -
 
"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 -
 
"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 -

"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 -
 
"Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
We must separate awhileHere! 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 -
 
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
- Frederick Ham -
 
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
- Marlin Finch Lupus -
 
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth -
 
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa -

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier -
 
You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
- Buddha -
 
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- John Ciardi -
 
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- St. Augustine -
 
Love is The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost -
 
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire -
 
Some people grumble because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Karr -
 
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
 
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven
- Karen Sunde -
 
Love is a great beautifier.
- Louisa May Alcott -
 
All you need is love
- John Lennon -
 
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
- Emerson -
 
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
- George T. Hewitt -
 
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo -
 
In love there are two things bodies and words.
- Joyce Carol Oates -
 
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
 
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- William Faulkner -
 
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall -
 
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love
- Pearl Bailey -
 
An attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality
- Theodore Reik -
 
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
- Alexis Delp -
 
Love conquers all
- Virgil -
 
I would rather live and love where death is king. . . than have eternal life where love is not.
- Robert G. Ingersoll -
 
Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
- Vincent Van Gogh -

Where there is great love, there are always miracles
- Willa Cather -
 
Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.
- Kurt Cornish -
 
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato -
 
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
- Sophocles -
 
Love is first friendship and then commitment
- Jacques Pierre Ribault -
 
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
- Japanese proverb -
 
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
- George Elliot -
 
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy -
 
Love is friendship set to music.
- E. Joseph Crossmann -
 
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
- La Rochefoucauld -
 
Talk not of wasted affection. Affection never was wasted.
- Longfellow -
 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
- William Shakespeare -