I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
Interpretation
The quote expresses a sentiment that love is more fulfilling than material pleasures.
Cole Porter suggests that while he doesn't find joy or excitement in superficial pleasures like champagne or alcohol, he experiences genuine thrill and joy in the presence of the person he loves. This juxtaposition highlights the idea that true happiness and excitement come from deep emotional connections rather than temporary pleasures.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of emotional connections over material gifts.
Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
Night and day you are the one,_x000D_ _x000D_ Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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