Valentine’s Day Quotes

Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love—new love, old love, first love, passionate love. The subsequent collection of quotations marks this wonderful holiday with thoughts about love. Share them with someone you love. Enjoy them for their romantic wisdom and wit.

“Cupid is a knavish lad
Thus to make poor females mad.” Shakespeare

“When love is not madness it is not love.” Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day,
All the morning betime
As I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.” Shakespeare

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” Zora Neale Hurston

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” Sarah Bernhardt

“Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.” ~Michael Drayton

“I send you this card and call you mine and love you always my Valentine.” Vintage Postcard Greetings

“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” Baron Gottfried von Leibnitz

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” Nikki Giovanni

“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.” Lynda Barry

“Today is Valentine’s Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day.” Jay Leno

“Who, being loved, is poor?” Oscar Wilde

“Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.” William George Jordan

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” George Moore

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip” Jonathan Carroll

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Shakespeare

“Love is a taste of paradise.” Sholem Aleichem

“A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away” Oscar Hammerstein

“kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.” e.e. cummings

“We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Hands up! I’m playing robber
My weapon’s Cupid’s dart,
And I will keep you at its point
Till you give me your heart.” Vintage Postcard Greetings

“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” Jeanne Moreau

“Love it the enchanted dawn of every heart.” Lamartine

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert Heinlein

“The heart that loves is always young.” Greek Proverb

“Love, then hath every bliss in store;
‘Tis friendship and ‘tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.” John Gay

“That love is all there is
Is all we know of love.” Emily Dickinson

“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze.” I Ching

“If it hadn’t been for my wife, I couldn’t have stood married life.” Don Herold

“With all thy faults, I love thee still.” William Cowper

“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom: to serve all, but love only one.” Honore De Balzac

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.” Winston Churchill

“True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.” Alphonse De Lamartine

“Let every husband stay a lover true,
And every wife remain a sweetheart too.” Anonymous

“The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made.” Jane Austen

“With thee all toils are sweet; each clime hath charms; earth-sea alike—our world within our arms!” Lord Byron

”Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.” Song of Solomon 8:7

“A life without love is like a year without summer.” Swedish Proverb

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir. Once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.” John Lennon

“I wanted to make it really special on Valentine’s Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.” Tracy Smith

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” Rose Franken

“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.” Mae West

“Apart, will we surely be lonely: love me ‘cause I love thee only.” Vintage Postcard, 1913

“Together we stood without words
And love, like the heavy fragrance
Of the flowering thorn tree, pierced us.” Gabriella Mistral

“Our state cannot be severed; we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.” John Milton

“I would be friends with you and have your love.” Shakespeare

“I love thee, I love thee,
‘Tis all I can say;
It is my vision in night,
My dreaming in day.” Thomas Hood

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life in age after age forever.” Rabindranath Tagore

“I know not whether thou has been absent:
I lie down with thee, I rise up with thee,
In my dreams thou are with me.
If my eardrops tremble in my ears,
I know it is thou moving within my heart.” Aztec Love Song