“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Brontë
HappinessHonesty
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.
“I have a strange feeling with regard to you, as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string in you.”
Charlotte Brontë
ConnectionSoulmates
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyWitty
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde
RomanceWitty
“It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.”
Oscar Wilde
ProposalFunny
“Divorces are made in Heaven.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyMarriage
“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.”
Oscar Wilde
EngagementFunny
“This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way.”
Mark Twain
FunnyRelationships
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
Mark Twain
SoulmatesRomance
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together.”
Mark Twain
ForeverDevotion
“The sweetest hours that e'er I spend are spent among the lasses, O.”
Robert Burns
FlirtingFun
“I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion.”
John Keats
Love LettersPassion
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
John Keats
Love LettersRomance
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of Love.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LovePassion
“Come into the garden, Maud, for the black bat, night, has flown.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Date NightRomance
“Love is best.”
Robert Browning
LoveSimplicity
“Why don't you speak for yourself, John?”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ConfidenceAsking Out
“Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, wild nights should be our luxury!”
Emily Dickinson
PassionLonging
“Some say an army of horsemen is the fairest thing on the dark earth, but I say it is whatsoever a person loves.”
Sappho
BeautyLove
“Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred.”
Catullus
KissingPassion
“Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love.”
Plato
SoulmatesPhilosophy
“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:10)
InvitationRomance
“Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 4:9)
AttractionLove At First Sight
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 1:2)
KissingRomance
“And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.”
The Bible (Genesis 29:11)
First MeetingEmotion