Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me
“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”
“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
“You don't need words — just one kiss, then another.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Lips. There was something strangely, delicately
indelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
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Les Caractères (1688), De la société et de la conversation
Context: To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing; they are biting and bitter; their words are steeped in gall and wormwood; sneers as well as insolent and insulting words flow from their lips. It had been well for them had they been born mute or stupid; the little vivacity and intelligence they have prejudices them more than dullness does others; they are not always satisfied with giving sharp answers, they often attack arrogantly those who are present, and damage the reputation of those who are absent; they butt all round like rams — for rams, of course, must use their horns. We therefore do not expect, by our sketch of them, to change such coarse, restless, and stubborn individuals. The best thing a man can do is to take to his heels as soon as he perceives them, without even turning round to look behind him.
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
Source: This Side of Paradise
