Dating Quotes

“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.”

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.”

Victor Hugo

“So, we'll go no more a roving so late into the night.”

Lord Byron

“And straight was a path of gold for him, and the need of a world of men for me.”

Robert Browning

“Mark but this flea, and mark in this, how little that which thou deniest me is.”

John Donne

“Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows, and through curtains, call on us?”

John Donne

“Whenas in silks my Julia goes, then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows that liquefaction of her clothes.”

Robert Herrick

“They flee from me that sometime did me seek.”

Thomas Wyatt

“'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart, and write.'”

Philip Sidney

“What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.”

Catullus

“Women desire to have sovereignty as well over their husband as their love.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away.”

Edmund Spenser

“She was a Phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight.”

William Wordsworth

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

George Eliot

“There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”

Ovid

“At the touch of love every one becomes a poet.”

“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines.”

The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:15)

“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.”

The Bible (Proverbs 18:22)

“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”

The Bible (Proverbs 31:10)

“This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”

The Bible (Genesis 2:23)

“In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Here's my hand. - And mine, with my heart in't.”