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.
Such love
As to his only son, his well-beloved,
The heir to all his wealth, a father shows.
Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence,
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star
sickened and shrank.
Nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.
But she—she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
He that is purified by Love is pure (Safi), and he who is purified by the Beloved in Sufi.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.