Notable & Quotable: Kiss Me More






You need to be kissed – and often – by someone who knows how.
– Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
What a woman!
– Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
– Juliet to Romeo, Wm. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Here’s looking at you kid.
– Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
I was born when you kissed me.
I died when you left.
I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
– Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.
– Tarzan to Jane, Wm. Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes
Take my breath away.
– Marc Anthony to Cleopatra, Wm. Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra
In a world full of ambiguity, a certainty like this comes but once in a lifetime.
– Clint Eastwood to Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
Make me immortal with a kiss.
– Dr. Faustus to Helen of Troy, Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
This is the very ecstasy of love.
– Hamlet to Ophelia, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
– Kevin Costner to Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
– Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies
Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
– Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
– Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
– The Bible, The Song of Solomon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
– Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee
Come live with me and be my love
and we will some new pleasures prove.
– John Donne
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all the other pleasures are.
– John Dryden, English poet
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
– Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
– Robert Herrick, To Anthea






