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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:

The revolutionary knows that we cannot love our people without hating those who destroy us. All true emotion has opposite poles.

David Lane

Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion.

Stefan Szczesny Mustique (2002)

They loved that I put a bone through my nose. They loved that I had my penis pushed back inside me.

Bruce Parry

When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.

Byron Katie

Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.

Albert Cohen Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother (1954)

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Warren Farrell Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)

They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost.

Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.

Varadaraja V. Raman

I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes.
You've got a certain li'l cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes.

Gus Arnheim

I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver Thirst (2006)

Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to Love — I acknowledge that a Lady is in the Case — and further I confess, that this Lady is known to you.

George Washington

Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.

Abraham Lincoln

You don't have to love everything George W. Bush stands for to hate everything that Osama Bin Laden stands for.

John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan

In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.

Richard Ford Wildlife (1990)

There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.

Paddy Chayefsky The Americanization of Emily (1964)

I love Twitter. How much is it?

Elon Musk

And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

I handed in their game, without thinking about anything it was late when I realized my wrong attitude.. Sad when you love who else wants to deceive you.

MC Daleste

This is just a stopping-off point for me but I'll be stopping long enough to make it worth my while finding what people call 'someone to love'.

Javier Marías Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)

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