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.
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house.
Love leads to present rapture,—then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.
Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.