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Humor: 16 Pick-up lines from literary characters

All's well that ends in a date

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Young happy couple enjoying while communicating during their date in a bar. Focus is on woman.
Darcy thinks you've got tolerable eyes. (skynesher via Getty Images)

"Is this a hot woman I see before me?"-Macbeth

"Listener, I married him, but we all have secrets locked away in the metaphorical (and real) attic."-Jane Eyre

"You look tolerable enough to talk to."-Fitzwilliam Darcy

"I'd grant you 3 wishes and then some if you just rubbed my lamp, baby." -The Genie from Aladdin

"Light of my loins — wait? You're 18? Too old."-Humbert Humbert

"Someone better tie me to this bar seat, because I can't resist you."-Odysseus

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"We're all horny here." -Cheshire Cat

"Here's my phone number, that's for remembrance."-Ophelia

"You never really understand a person until you let them take you to dinner."-Atticus Finch

"Are you hiding a magical portrait in your attic? Because you are suspiciously flawless." -Dorian Gray

"If music be the food of love then dessert is the language of a one night stand and I've got ice cream at my place." -Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night)

"I'd fight 10 windmills to win your love." -Don Quixote

"It's a far far better thing, to give me your number, than to be alone. It will be far far better evening than you have ever known." -Edward Woodard (A Tale of Two Cities)

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"Call me Ismael…or whatever you want." -Ishmael (Moby Dick)

"I couldn't help but notice that everyone else besides you is wearing a mask here." -Erik (Phantom Of the Opera)

"You look like the kind of woman I would never offer for sale after getting drunk at a fair. What? That's a compliment." Michael Henchard (Mayor of Casterbridge)

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Humor writer who also delves into fun historical facts and oddities.
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