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.
’Tis love, not years or limbs that can
Make the martyr, or the man.
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;
Ah, would that we were young again!
Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.
The sun has burst the sky
Because I love you
And the river its banks.
Forth we went, a gallant band—
Youth, Love, Gold and Pleasure.
"I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square."
"The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister."
Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.
Her body Beauty's best-esteemèd bower,
Delicious, comely, dainty, without stain.
All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
For Beatrice— No one could extinguish my love, or your house.
I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.