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.
When love is at its best, one loves
So much that he cannot forget.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
I pour into the world the eternal streams
Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, "…in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."
When we want to say something deeply personal, we often say that we are speaking “from the heart".