“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love for ever.”
Robert Burns
Love At First SightForever
Dating Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DATING
Dating Quotes
Read 200 of the best dating quotes about first dates, flirting, falling in love and romance, from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and more.
“Gin a body kiss a body, need a body cry?”
Robert Burns
KissingFlirting
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence.”
Lord Byron
LoveRelationships
“Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
FlirtingSoulmates
“And the sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what is all this sweet work worth if thou kiss not me?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
KissingRomance
“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
SpringCrush
“A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch and blue spurt of a lighted match.”
Robert Browning
Secret MeetingRomance
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen
Single LifeFunny
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.”
Jane Austen
First ImpressionsFunny
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Jane Austen
ConfessionRomance
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
Jane Austen
Falling In LoveRomance
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
Jane Austen
Love LettersLonging
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Jane Austen
ConfessionShy Love
“Reader, I married him.”
Charlotte Brontë
Happy EndingsMarriage
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love - I have found you.”
Charlotte Brontë
Finding LoveSoulmates
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Oscar Wilde
RomanceMystery
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyCommitment
“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyMarriage
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity.”
Oscar Wilde
RelationshipsWitty
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.”
Mark Twain
PatienceGrowing Love
“Love is a kind of warfare.”
Ovid
PursuitRomance
“Once again limb-loosening Love makes me tremble, the bittersweet, irresistible creature.”
Sappho
ButterfliesPassion
“I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happen and am in torment.”
Catullus
Complicated LoveHeartbreak
“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:5)
LovesickRomance
“I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:7)
PatienceWisdom