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.
The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust.
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
Beauty may be skin-deep, but horror goes all the way down to the desiccated bone beneath.
Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.
Beauty and ugliness are manifestations of the self-The lovely colorless is in each color.
She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.