“Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
William Shakespeare

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DATING
Read 200 of the best dating quotes about first dates, flirting, falling in love and romance, from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and more.
“Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
William Shakespeare
“Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour.”
William Shakespeare
“The truest poetry is the most feigning; and lovers are given to poetry.”
William Shakespeare
“We that are true lovers run into strange capers.”
William Shakespeare
“Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace.”
William Shakespeare
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.”
William Shakespeare
“I will go get her picture.”
William Shakespeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.”
William Shakespeare
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
William Shakespeare
“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
William Shakespeare
“Win her with gifts, if she respect not words.”
William Shakespeare
“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”
William Shakespeare
“My only love sprung from my only hate!”
William Shakespeare
“You kiss by the book.”
William Shakespeare
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”
William Shakespeare
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.”
William Shakespeare
“The more I love, the more he hateth me.”
William Shakespeare
“Tell me where is fancy bred, or in the heart or in the head?”
William Shakespeare
“My love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease.”
William Shakespeare
“When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies.”
William Shakespeare
“She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, and I loved her that she did pity them.”
William Shakespeare
“One that loved not wisely but too well.”
William Shakespeare
“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”
William Shakespeare
“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
William Shakespeare
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Jane Austen