So if you’re looking for inspiration for what you’re going to write inside a card, hoping to incorporate some quotes about engagement as part of your toast during an engagement party while sharing wedding wishes, or working on an epic engagement Instagram post that needs the perfect caption, this big list of quotes about getting engaged can help. From sweet sayings about true love to famous quotes about two becoming one, these 100 romantic engagement sayings will help you find just the right words to celebrate the momentous occasion.
100 Engagement Quotes
- “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “We loved with a love that was more than a love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “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.” — Nora Ephron
- “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
- “The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
- “The secret of a happy marriage remains… a secret.” — Henny Youngman
- “Engagement marks the end of a whirlwind romance and beginning of an eternal love story.” — Rajeev Ranjan
- “I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” — Kamand Kojouri
- “True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; But it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “There are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.” — George Eliot
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little 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.” — Robert Fulghum
- “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
- “To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” —Charles Dickens
- “Wherever you are is my home, my only home.” — Jane Eyre 19, “Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.” — Zig Ziglar
- “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
- “You don’t marry someone you can live with—you marry the person you cannot live without.” — Anonymous
- “We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love.” — Gene Perret
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
- “It’s not your perfectness that I fell in love with. It was your flaws that brought me in.” — Unknown
- “Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.” — Anonymous
- “All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you!” — Byron Caldwell Smith
- “Marriage is not kick-boxing, it’s salsa dancing.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — Micheal Leunig
- “It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel—they get to know each other better.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne
- “If you have respect and consideration for one another, you’ll make it.” – Mary Durso
- “My whole heart for my whole life.” — French Saying
- “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
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte
- “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein https://parade.com/1169099/michellehaag/best-personalized-wedding-gifts-on-etsy/
- “Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” — Barnett R. Brickner
- “My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” —Elizabeth Taylor
- “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “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
- “Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri
- “Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other.” — Felix Adler
- “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” — Milan Kundera
- “They say that marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.” — Clint Eastwood
- “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
- “Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.” — Leo Buscaglia
- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” — Phyllis Diller
- “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.” — Maya Angelou
- “Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.” — Unknown
- “Cause you make me feel so brand new, and I want to spend my life with you." — Al Green
- “A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.” — African Proverb
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
- “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is a conversation.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.” — William Shakespear
- “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Your love paints a beautiful picture of what love really means.” — Anonymous
- “The most important four words for a successful marriage: ‘I’ll do the dishes.’” — Anonymous
- “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
- “Let us be together for the rest of our lives, I will assure you that, starting from this engagement.” — Unknown
- “I have found the one my soul loves.” — Song of Songs 3:4
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Marriages don’t work when one partner is happy and the other is miserable. Marriage is about both people being equally miserable.” – Forget Paris
- “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” — Mignon McLaughlin
- “But Ruth said, ‘Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.’” — Ruth 1:16-17
- “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
- “Give a man a finger, he’ll put a wedding ring on it!” ― Ljupka Cvetanova
- “If you tell me you love me, I might not believe you but if you show me you do, then I will.” — Unknown
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung
- “For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.” — Catherine Zeta-Jones
- “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.” — Unknown
- “I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. All I wanna do is grow old with you.” — Adam Sandler
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart.” — Judy Garland
- “We may have started as individuals, but now we are as one.” — Bryon Pulsifer
- “I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.” — Jules Asner
- “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love.” — William Penn
- “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – The Princess Bride
- “When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that’s a few steps ahead is the one that’s mad.” – Helen Rowland
- “Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” – Anonymous
- “I promise to take care of you when you are old but the first time you hit me with your cane, I’ll wash your dentures in toilet water.” – Anonymous
- “For better or worse, ‘til death do us part, I’ll love you with every beat of my heart, and I swear.” — All-4-One
- “The only gift is a portion of thyself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Ruth Bell Graham
- “Spouse: someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single.” – Anonymous
- “There are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.” —.George Eliot
- “Each time you happen to me all over again.” – Edith Wharton
- “Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” — Rabbi Julius Gordon
- “What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” – George Eliot
- “Without you, I’m nothing, with you I’m something, but together we are everything.” — Unknown
- “I feel like this is the beginning, though I’ve loved you for a million years.” — Stevie Wonder
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine
- “To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart—about a finger’s breadth—for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.” — Marnie Reed Crowel
- “Engagement is the time when you have a clear view of how wonderful your coming life will be. So try to get the best vision of a great and wonderful future waiting for you. ” — Unknown
- “A relationship is like a house, when a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, but you fix the light bulb.” — Unknown
- “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.” — Proverbs 31:10-11
- “For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gerard
- “We are not perfect, we learn from our mistakes. And as long as it takes, I will prove my love to you.”— Sara Bareilles
- “What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The success of love is in the loving, it is not in the result of loving.” – Mother Teresa
- “Forgive one another, as God forgives you.” — New Testament
- “I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.” — The Great Gatsby For romantic gift ideas for the newly engaged couple, click here.
