Top 118 Caress Quotes & Sayings

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

I like the original Metallica version they did on 'Garage Days' - 'Last Caress' and 'Green Hell.'

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

My old trainer used to tell us not to blast, but to caress the ball whenever we took possession. If the ball were a woman... she would be spending all night with Berbatov.

Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

Tell me, Kitten.” That deep, smooth voice brushed over me like a physical caress. “Shall I leave now, or wait until later?

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.

You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

I carry Caress Body Wash in Tempting Whisper to clean my hands. The scent lasts throughout the day!

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world.

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

May an elephant caress you with his toes

A love song is just a caress set to music.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.