Wit and valour are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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.
Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget
The pale, unripened beauties of the north.
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all.
Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?
In spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits.
Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find.