“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.”
Oscar Wilde
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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.
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.”
Victor Hugo
LoveContentment
“So, we'll go no more a roving so late into the night.”
Lord Byron
Night OutEndings
“And straight was a path of gold for him, and the need of a world of men for me.”
Robert Browning
PartingMorning After
“Mark but this flea, and mark in this, how little that which thou deniest me is.”
John Donne
FlirtingFunny
“Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows, and through curtains, call on us?”
John Donne
Lazy MorningsRomance
“Whenas in silks my Julia goes, then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows that liquefaction of her clothes.”
Robert Herrick
AttractionStyle
“They flee from me that sometime did me seek.”
Thomas Wyatt
GhostingHeartbreak
“'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart, and write.'”
Philip Sidney
Love LettersHonesty
“What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.”
Catullus
PromisesFunny
“Women desire to have sovereignty as well over their husband as their love.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
WomenRelationships
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away.”
Edmund Spenser
RomanceBeach
“She was a Phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight.”
William Wordsworth
Love At First SightAdmiration
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
George Eliot
TrustRelationships
“There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
BreakupsFeelings
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
True LoveFunny
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
Long DistancePassion
“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”
Ovid
NervousNew Love
“At the touch of love every one becomes a poet.”
Plato
RomancePoetry
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:15)
Protecting LoveWisdom
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.”
The Bible (Proverbs 18:22)
MarriageBlessing
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:10)
WorthWomen
“This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:23)
SoulmatesMarriage
“In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
SpringDating Season
“Here's my hand. - And mine, with my heart in't.”
William Shakespeare
CommitmentHappy Endings