On the Fourth Day of Christmas
Four Kisses Sweet
Ah, the kiss. Sensual. Sweet. Delicious. Dangerous. So many words come to mind when we think of kisses. A shy first kiss speaking a world of promises. A secret kiss stolen in the garden. A passionate embrace between long lost lovers.
Poets have eulogized on them, philosophers have philosophized on them (go with me on this one), and writers have tantalized our senses with the deft stroke of a pen. We read them. We watch them. We love them. And we always come back for more.
We know that the passionate love scenes can be some of the most delicious we’ve ever read, but those scenes have to start somewhere…the wooing, the charming, the delicious intoxication of that sweet kiss. They are the precursor to something greater and often are that moment when the zing truly zings in the couple’s blooming relationship.
There are so many great ones, I couldn’t even begin to guess where to start, but one of my favourites is the scene at the end of Love Actually where Natalie launches herself at her man, who just so happens to be the prime minister…ah, priceless. 
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One of my favorite kissing scenes was on Grey’s Anatomy a few years back where Alec and Izzie were supposed to go out, he was being flaky, so she went to a bar with her friends. So she’s sitting at the bar and he comes in, grabs her from behind and bends her over backwards – while still sitting on the stool – and proceeds to kiss her senseless. Then he leaves, not a word spoken between them and the look on her face when she’s upright again is priceless.
O.K. so this will prove that I am an incredible geek but I love the first kiss between Laura and Almanzo on Little House on the Prairie. My little girl heart was all a flutter. I loved that show growing up and I loved the books and I loved it when Almanzo finally figured it out.
I love the kiss in the rain in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” where Holly’s cat is in between them as they kiss. I also love the upside kiss between Spidey and Mary-Jane in “Spiderman.” A new favorite is when Chuck and Ned kiss through plastic wrap in “Pushing Daisies.” Ned can’t touch Chuck or she’ll die and remain dead.
You posted the picture for my favorite kissing scene. AND there was that kissing scene in North & South that none of us can stop sighing about and watching 42 million times on YouTube.
Avery–I totally was in love with Almanzo Wilder from the series. *swoons* And I loved The Dukes of Hazzard, the opening credits that shows Bo Duke about to kiss some girl. He just looks handsome and dangerous and sweet too…
Oh, the kiss in PS I Love You…and the kiss in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, when they get married. (Man, I love that music!)
I adore kisses and kissing, lol.
How about the kissing scene in, of all things, French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan where she’s is asleep on the train and kisses the b’jeebs out of Kevin Kline. The look he gives her afterwards is worth a thousand words.
The kiss in N&S, ‘natch. I must confess it’s the only part of the movie I’ve ever seen but I did recently see the re-run of the Vicar of Dibley where Richard Armitage’s character Harry seeks the Vicar out repeatedly to steal a kiss and what a kiss it is when he finally proposes and she screams her acceptance.
Oh! Oh! and the kiss Mark Darcy gives Bridget in her knickers in the middle of the street. But even more wicked is the kiss he tries to give her in the doorway of her apartment before she goes into get her sexy knickers on. What a look! Delish!
See, told you I love me some kissin’!
I think that Jennifer Crusie treats mad passionate kisses with a style thats all her own and brings out the humourous side. I particularly like this clip which is from ‘Manhunting’ and takes place in the back room of a bar. Kate and Jake start to realise that they have started something big!
She suddenly had trouble swallowing.“We seem to have been a little slow here, darlin’,” he said, and bent down to
kiss her softly. Time stopped, and Kate felt his lips distinctly on hers, not as a blurred impact, but as Jake’s lips touching hers. This is Jake, she thought. Jake. Oh, my God.His mustache tickled a little, and he tasted faintly of beer and something else that was hot and sweet and intrinsically Jake. She opened her mouth to taste him again, touching his lips with her tongue and leaning into his kiss, and he pulled her into him, bending her back under him as he kissed her harder. She felt the world spin around her and kissed him back mindlessly, pressing against him, clutching his shoulders until he broke the kiss and moved her head under his chin. She could feel the pulse at the base of his neck pounding, feel herself breathing fast against his chest.“This isn’t quite what I had planned,” he said.“I know,” she said wildly. “Me either. Who cares? Kiss me again.”
Jake cradled her face with his hands and kissed her softly once, twice, running his tongue over her lips, down her neck, kissing the hollow at the base of her throat. She trembled with wanting him, moving her hands over the muscles in his back, feeling them hard and tense under her touch.“This is making me crazy,” she said. “We have to stop.”
“Right,” he said, moving his hands away. “Right.”As he brought his hands down, he accidentally brushed against her breast and she moaned. He froze, and then moved his hands under her tank top, cupping her breasts, rubbing his thumbs hard across her nipples through the lace of her bra. She clenched her teeth and shuddered, pressing against his hands, gasping at his touch, running her tongue along his collarbone, his neck. He kissed her, his tongue thrusting in her mouth, his hands hard on her breasts, and she pressed her hips against his, crying out with need.“Oh, God, Kate,” he said.
She bit his arm through his shirt.“We need to make love,” he said into her hair. “For about two weeks. Right now.”
She rubbed her face in his shirt. “Anything,” she said breathlessly. “Just keep making me feel like this.”
Nancy knocked on the door and came in.
So many great kisses to pick from…the first kiss in Emma, the kiss that closes the movie Just Like Heaven, Grey’s Anatomy’s Meredith and Derek in the elevator when she drops all the files, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind, and the magical kiss in Enchanted. I could go on and on.
I’d say the first kiss between Zachary and Holly in Lisa Kleypas’ Where Dreams Begin was pretty intense (the one on the balcony where he mistakes her for someone else. I think Avery brought this scene up in a recent post.
I also agree with Santa on the kiss between Darcy and Bridget at the end of Bridget Jones’ Diary. Also the one at the end of the PBS 6 hour Pride and Prejudice mini-series between Darcy and Lizzie.
For movie kisses, I’ll go with the seasonal. The scene in It’s a Wonderful Life when George is insisting that he doesn’t want to get married and Mary is crying and then he grabs her and kisses her is a classic scene in a classic movie. I love it! Then there’s the New Year’s Eve scene in When Harry Met Sally. One of those perfect modern romantic moments.
Two favorites from romance novels are:
1. Rafe and Ragan’s first kiss in Nora Roberts’s The Return of Rafe MacKade-”He moved in slowly, slipping his hands around her waist, fitting his mouth to hers. He took his time sampling . . . ” Sigh!
2. Harriet and Jem’s first kiss in Eloisa James’s Duchess by Night: “The kiss changed Harriet. She could feel it, changing her sinews and her bones, changing the essence of who she was: a sad, tidy little widow from the country. But with that kiss singing in her bones, she wanted to dance.” Now that’s a kiss!
I so love kissing scenes that the simmer and build up to the time they’re left breathless! Theres a scene when the hero and heroine were dancing to the music of greensleeves. I have never heard the music but I could feel it all with this scene in Lorranine Heath’s ALWAYS TO REMEMBER. Clayton came back from the war scared emotionally as well as physically and Meg was a widow and so reminded of her husband’s lost through Clayton. So opposite in opinion because of their stubbornness, the intensity when they came together to kiss was lingering from the build up of resisting it for so long. I remember as the dance started, the gentleness grew but so sizzling. A beautiful kiss as well as book.