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 loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns !
I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.
Ah, when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
Then let wrath remove;
Love will do the deed:
For with love
Stony hearts will bleed.