Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.
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.
…love…In all languages the word is treacherous and hard to define.
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...
Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.
"When the sense of distinction and separation is absent, you may call it love."