A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
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.
All beauty is delightful; but human beauty … is the best of all.
Each ornament about her seemly lies,
By curious chance, or careless art composed.
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Beauty is brought by judgment of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
Beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.