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.
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad!
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?
And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Stand still, and I will read to thee
A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,
I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.