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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.

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Most quoted on valentine's day:

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

That wonderful book [The Pilgrim's Progress], while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

This excessive love for "the balance of power" is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

John Bright

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Yanni

Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.

Adam Ferguson An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)

I love Pops, I love the way he sings, the way he plays - everything he does, except when he says something against modern-jazz music.

Miles Davis In Playboy to Alex Haley (1962)

In the name of God. Peace be upon all the freedom loving people of the world

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do.

Diana Cooper

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Wallace Stevens Harmonium (1923)

Not to be realized because not to
Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because
Not to be realized.

Wallace Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942)

And when you think of love and fame
And all that might have come to pass,
Then don't you feel a little shame?
And don't you think you were an ass?

Joyce Kilmer Trees and Other Poems (1914)

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

Karen Blixen Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little

William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis (1848)

Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.

Janis Joplin I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)

The Lord said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Which means we must love ourselves first, for we are, in a manner of speaking, our first neighbor.

Catherine Doherty The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Michael Jackson Dancing the Dream (1992)

"It's all for love... With the love, L.O.V.E."

Michael Jackson This Is It (2009)

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others

Sophie Swetchine

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