Oh, to be in love!
Isn’t it incredible how love has a way of sneaking up on us and sweeping us off our feet? That moment when you look at each other and just know you’re meant to be—it’s pure magic! Like something out of your favorite love story, right? And now, you’re ready to share it with the world (or at least on your Instagram feed)!
I’ve always been a fan of words that capture those heart-fluttering feelings, especially during an engagement. So, I’ve gathered a collection of the most romantic, funny, and heartfelt engagement quotes. Because your love story deserves a sprinkle of magic and a dash of charm.
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Best Engagement Quotes
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” — Judy Garland
- “You don’t marry someone you can live with — you marry the person who you cannot live without.” — Aleatha Romig

- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
- “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” — Bruce Lee
- “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” — John Keats

- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child
- “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” — Fawn Weaver
- “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain
- “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
- “A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat; if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it; otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.” — David Reuben
Romantic Engagement Quotes
- “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
- “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
- “For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gérard
- “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” — Rabindranath Tagore

- “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
- “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E. E. Cummings
- “I choose you. And I’ll choose you, over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” ― Raven Steele, A Shifter’s Heart

- “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known — and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.” — Rumi
- “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.” —Dr. Seuss
- “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make—not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.” — Barbara de Angelis
Funny Engagement Quotes
- “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
- “A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” — Unknown
- “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.” — Montaigne
- “Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
- “Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.” — Helen Rowland
- “My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.” — Rodney Dangerfield
- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
- “The secret to a happy marriage remains a secret.” — Henny Youngman

- “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
- “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” — Socrates
- “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” — Zsa Zsa Gabor
- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
- “Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
- “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
- “My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.” — Joyce Brothers
- “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.” — Rodney Dangerfield
- “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” ― J.D. Salinger

- “I’m not really sure how I’ll feel after getting married, but I’m definitely looking forward to the honeymoon.” — Unknown
- “A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.” — Dax Shepard
- “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham
- “Why do married people live longer than single people? I think it’s because married people make a special effort to live longer than their partner—just so they can have the last word.” — Janet Periat
- “They say that marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” — Clint Eastwood
- “Marriages don’t work when one partner is happy and the other is miserable. Marriage is about both people being equally miserable.” — Forget Paris
- “For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.” — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Cute Engagement Quotes
- “I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” – Kamand Kojouri
- “It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them.” — Anurag Prakash Ray
- “Engagement marks the end of a whirlwind romance and beginning of an eternal love story.” — Rajeev Ranjan
- “I would bend my knee a million times to stand by you.” — Jordan Kimball

- “We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love.” — Gene Perret
- “My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement.” — Winston Churchill
- “All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you!” — Byron Caldwell Smith
- “Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri
- “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry Van Dyke
- “Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love.” — William Penn
Short Engagement Quotes
- “True love stories never have endings.” — Richard Bach
- “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse
- “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito.
- “My soul and your soul are forever tangled.” — N.R. Hart
- “We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike

- “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
- “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — André Maurois
- “Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” — Sophia Bush
- “I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.” — Unknown
- “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” — Leo Buscaglia
- “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.” — János Arany
- “Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor

Inspirational Engagement Quotes
- “Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
- “Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” — Ann Landers
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
- “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen

- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein
- “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” — Barbara De Angelis
- “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” — Erich Fromm
- “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” — Unknown

- “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl A. Menninger
- “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe
- “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
- “The best love is the one that makes you a better person without changing you into someone other than yourself.” — Unknown
- “Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. It’s all about how much you love each other every day.” — Unknown
Christian Engagement Quotes
- “I have found the one whom my soul loves.” — Song of Solomon 3:4 (Bible)
- “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
- “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” — Mark 10:9
- “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
- “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” — 1 Corinthians 13:13

- “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” — 1 Peter 4:8
- “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” — Ephesians 5:25
- “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” — Proverbs 3:3-4
- “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9
- “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” — Colossians 3:14
- “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” — Ephesians 4:2

- “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” — 1 John 4:7
- “May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.” — Proverbs 5:18
- “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” — Psalm 143:8
- “Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.” — Song of Solomon 8:7
- “Love is strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” — Song of Solomon 8:6
- “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave.” — Song of Solomon 8:6
- “My lover is mine, and I am his; he feeds his flock among the lilies.” — Song of Solomon 6:3
- “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.” — John 15:12 (Bible)
Engagement Quotes from Famous Poets and Authors
- I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) — E.E. Cummings
- “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
- “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” — Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

- “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
- “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
- “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

- “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” — Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
- “No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we’ll start with forever.” — Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
- “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- “Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” — John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
- “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” — Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Engagement Quotes from Movies and TV Shows
- “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally
- “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me… every day.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” ― Frances “Baby” Houseman, Dirty Dancing
- “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.” — Leo, The Vow
- “I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

- “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- “I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person.” — Henry, 50 First Dates
- “As you wish.” — The Princess Bride
- “You make me want to be a better man.” — Melvin Udall , As Good as It Gets
- “Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you. And I’m thankful for that, Rose. I’m thankful.” — Jack, Titanic
- “When I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you and I’m home.” — Dory, Finding Nemo
- “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

- Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic. — Sam Baldwin, Sleepless in Seattle
- “I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” — Anna Scott, Notting Hill
- “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” — Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
- “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” — Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Christian, Moulin Rouge!
- “The only thing that matters is that you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.” — Chandler Bing, Friends
- “If soulmates do exist, they’re not found, they’re made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and they get to work building a relationship.” — Michael, The Good Place
- “When you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. My kids are gonna be right about that.” — Pam Beesly, The Office
Final Thoughts
An engagement is such a beautiful milestone, filled with love, excitement, and the promise of a lifetime together.
That’s why I hope these quotes help you share your joy, whether it’s for a social media post, an invitation, or a quiet moment between you and your partner. Remember, this is your love story, and no matter which quote you pick, it’s going to be the perfect one for you.