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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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I fell in love with money before I had any and it’s a myth that the best romances end in heartbreak.

Carole Morin

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.

Vātsyāyana

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

Maryam Mirzakhani

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

Jean Guitton

Beauty is a splendour that must detach itself from those who possess it without them noticing and without returning to them.

Jean Guitton

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.

Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Gottfried Leibniz Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677)

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

William Morris

The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.

Theodore Gray

When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.

Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

What distressed me most — more even than my own folly — was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

George MacDonald Phantastes (1858)

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have — and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Christopher Reeve

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

Maria Callas

We must uphold traditional social values, which do not permit this kind of vulgar display of beauty. I will just not allow any beauty contest to be held in this state.

Rajnath Singh

I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth
I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow.

Yunus Emre

You should learn that life, like love, is the only business whose balance sheet must end in the red: you have to give everything without calculating what you get in return.

Paolo Crepet

It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.

Nicole Kidman

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