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Kissing is pretty neat. Let’s not dive too deeply into the haunted crypt that is my love life, but suffice it to say I have kissed a person or two in my time. No one’s good at it right away; it takes practice. \u00a0Learning to kiss is like learning to ride a bike. You have no clue what you’re doing, you’re nervous, your hands are sweaty, and the whole time you’re just hoping for the best while hurtling through the unknowable void.<\/p>\n
But if there’s anyone who can teach the masses how the navigate the forbidden and inexplicable witchcraft also known as “kissing,” it’s William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n
When you’re going in for the kiss but you panic at the last minute:<\/strong> When you’re trying to resist the \u00a0urge to say “thank you” after they kiss you (I mean, you’ve seen THAT \u00a0episode \u00a0of \u00a0Gilmore Girls<\/em>), \u00a0but you’re not sure what else to say so instead you go with:<\/strong> When you’re having one last make-out session before you both go off to separate colleges:<\/strong> When you have no idea how to flirt:<\/strong> When you’re going in for a second kiss:<\/strong> When you’re telling your friend \u00a0all about \u00a0it later:<\/strong> When you STILL \u00a0have no idea how to flirt:<\/strong> When their breath is so pungent you can practically physically see it:<\/strong> When he’s a good kisser but he’s two months younger than you:<\/strong> When they’re such a good kisser that \u00a0you’ve only been on one date but you’re already planning a future:<\/strong> When you can’t believe they’re kissing you because they’re so unbelievably hot:<\/strong> When your crush finally kisses you and it’s just, you know, it’s not great:<\/strong> When you want to critique their tongue technique \u00a0but you don’t want to completely ruin the mood:<\/strong> When you’re doing some serious PDA and there are people around, and you can hear them judging you:<\/strong> When the kiss is really boring:<\/strong> When he asks to kiss your hand, which you find kind of weird because what is this, the eighteenth century? So you’re going to make it weirder.<\/strong> When Kate doesn’t want to kiss you and you can’t, for the life of you, figure out why:<\/strong> This post was originally published in August 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kissing is pretty neat. Let’s not dive too deeply into the haunted crypt that is my love life, but suffice it to say I have kissed a person or two in my time. No one’s continue reading<\/span>
\n“I\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6kiss the tender inward of thy hand.”
\n\u2014Sonnet 128<\/p>\n
\n“What’s done, is done.”
\n\u2014Macbeth<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n“Thus with a kiss I die.”
\n\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 3<\/p>\n
\n“You have witchcraft in your lips.”
\n\u2014Henry V<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSin \u00a0from \u00a0thy \u00a0lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
\nGive me my \u00a0sin \u00a0again.\u201d
\n\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 5<\/p>\n
\n“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.”
\n\u2014Othello<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 3<\/p>\n
\n“O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!”
\n\u2014A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n“Mine eyes smell onions.”
\n\u2014All’s Well that Ends Well<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 3<\/p>\n
\n“He wears the rose of youth upon him.”
\n\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 13<\/p>\n
\n“Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday”
\n\u2014The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 7<\/p>\n
\n“You are too hot.”
\n\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 5<\/p>\n
\n“What made me love thee?”
\n\u2014Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 3<\/p>\n
\n“Love hath made thee a tame snake.”
\n\u2014As You Like It<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n“He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.”
\n\u2014The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n“You kiss by th’ book.”
\n\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 5<\/p>\n
\n“O, let me kiss that hand!”
\n“Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
\n\u2014King Lear<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 6<\/p>\n
\n“Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.”
\n\u2014The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 2<\/p>\n