For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Valentine's Day Quotes
This page has no collection of its own behind it. It is built from the pages on love, romance and beauty, so it is very large and not selective. Use it as a place to start, and check what you pick.
The check matters more for love than for most topics, because so many of the famous lines are not what they seem. “Choose a job you love” is not Confucius, and “God made beer because he loves us” is probably a garbled Franklin on wine. See the Love page for both. If you are going to put a quote in a card, look at the label next to it first.
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Some love to roam o’er the dark sea’s foam,
Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast.
Love guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee.
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.