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.
For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.
Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king.
What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could
Preserve from death's hand this their heav'nly mould.