That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
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.
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
Even in days of loss and sorrow, beauty remains, and I am ever grateful.
The kindly intercourse will ever prove
A bond of amity and social love.
Thus was beauty sent from heaven, the lovely ministress of truth and good in this dark world.
Banks that slope to the southern sky
Where languid violets love to lie.
I hate the way he writes. I kind of love the way he lives, though.
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.