Oscar Wilde Quotes About Kissing

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Freedom, Kissing, Anarchy

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.148, Oxford University Press on Demand

• A kiss may ruin a human life

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Kissing, May

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.164, Penguin

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Men, Hands

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Hands, Sick

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.150, OUP Oxford

• I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Lips, Walt

  "Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations" by John Stokes, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
  With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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