Top 40 Valentine's Day Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”

— Jay Leno

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2. “Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.”

— Jeanette Winterson

3. “What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

— Pearl Bailey

4. “I’m not alone, but I am lonely without you.”

— Mary Martin

5. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”

— Robert Fulghum

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6. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”

— Rosemonde Gerard

7. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

— Maya Angelou

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8. “Love is being stupid together.”

— Paul Valéry

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9. “One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

— Khalil Gibran

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10. “Love and a cough cannot be hid.”

— George Herbert

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11. “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

— Albert Camus

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12. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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13. “Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

— Thomas Merton

14. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare

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15. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare

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16. “Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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17. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

18. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”

— Ben Hecht

19. “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”

— Margaret Atwood

20. “Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

— E.E. Cummings

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21. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton

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22. “When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”

— C. S. Lewis

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23. “A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

— Thomas Moore

24. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

25. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

— Eva Gabor

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26. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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27. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

— Robert Frost

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28. “The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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29. “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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30. “Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

31. “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

— Oscar Wilde

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32. “True love stories never have endings.”

— Richard Bach

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33. “I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.”

— Dr. Seuss

34. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

— William Shakespeare

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35. “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

— John Keats

36. “Love is metaphysical gravity.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

37. “Love is the poetry of the senses.”

— Honoré de Balzac

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38. “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 Edward Moore

39. “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

40. “Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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