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Jane Austen3 quotes
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen · 1813I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. — Jane Austen · 1813A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. — Jane Austen · 1813Charlotte Bronte1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Cole Porter1 quote
Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter · 1928Duke1 quote
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They are shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. — Duke · 2004Edward Bloom1 quote
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true... What they don't tell you is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Edward Bloom · 2003Elvis Presley1 quote
Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can't help
Falling in love with you — Elvis Presley · 1961Haruki Murakami1 quote
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Haruki Murakami · 2002Joel Barish1 quote
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention? — Joel Barish · 2004John Green1 quote
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green · 2012Johnny Cash1 quote
I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher. — Johnny Cash · 1963Mrs. Potts1 quote
Tale as old as time, true as it can be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly. — Mrs. Potts · 1991Robert Louis Stevenson1 quote
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Thomas Moore1 quote
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream. — Thomas Moore · 1807William Shakespeare1 quote
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten. — William Shakespeare · 1616