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:

Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within...

Edith Hamilton The Greek Way (1930)

Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.

Barry Long Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Love is a sacred mystery.
To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

Kahlil Gibran

There is no occasion to look behind our neighbor's actual condition for any hidden valuable quality that will explain and justify our love for him. God's love is explanation and sanction enough.

Anders Nygren Agape and Eros (1930)

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Spanish Student (1843)