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.
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.
The dimples in
Her cheeks and chin
Are snares which Love hath set,
And I have fallen in!
Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows, in ev'ry heart.
Gray hair is a crown of beauty when it is found in the way of righteousness.
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
Her necke like to a stately towre,
Where Love himselfe imprisoned lies.