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.
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
I think youβre beautiful, the only beautiful person Iβve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem
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