Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.
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 the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies.
Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.