After reading through hundreds and hundreds short love quotes, love sayings, love songs and romantic poems, we’ve never felt better prepared. We’re ready for expressing our affection on Valentine’s Day, Birthdays or Anniversaries.

And, better yet, we pulled the best of the best into the list below, including a top ten list. Enjoy.

77 Short Love Quotes For Incurable Romantics

Top Ten Short Love Quotes

1.) The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

In this Audrey Hepburn quote, the actress captures the warmth and togetherness of true love. With an economical use of words, she communicates how important relationships are during our time on earth.

2.) I wish I’d done everything on earth with you.

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes that when there’s deep affection shared, partners want to spend every waking moment with their dearest. It’s a tale as old as time.

3.) Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost’s short love saying says a lot in just a few words. It’s not only about being in love, it’s also wanting to be loved by the one you want. It’s almost like one those short love poems, but in this case, it’s only one line.

4.) Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

One of Robert Browning’s inspirational love quotes that seem to be a favorite at weddings everywhere you go. It’s easy to see why. The words are a promise from one lover to another. For however good things are now, it will get even better.

5.) Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

J.D. Salinger, of Catcher in the Rye fame, gets quickly to the point with these words of love. A shared viewpoint is so important for couples. Seeing things the same way, shared principles and yes, laughing at the same things, makes a relationship go smoothly.

6.) A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

In one of the better, cute love quotes, Ingrid Bergman describes the magic of a kiss. It’s hard to imagine anyone ever improving on this definition.

7.) He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

Who knew that Ring Lardner, perhaps best known as a boxing writer, could come up with one of the great, funny love quotes? More references to waffles when talking romance are always welcome.

8.) I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams.

And here’s Dr. Seuss composing like it’s coming from romantic love letters. When you’re wild about your crush, it’s like you’re walking on air. You can’t wait to see your sweetheart every moment of the day.

9.) Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor, who played a lead role in the TV show Green Acres (“New York is where I’d rather be…), addresses the win-win opportunity of a strong relationship.

10.) I love you right up to the moon — and back.

In the classic children’s book Guess How Much I Love You, author Sam McBratney describes a young hare who is being tucked in by his father. Every time the hare expresses how great his love is for his father, the dad one ups him. Finally, the young hare thinks he’s got it by telling his dad he loves him to the moon. But, as the young hare falls asleep, his father is heard whispering, “I love you right up to the moon – and back.” It’s become one of those sweet love quotes that used on many birthday cards and Facebook greetings.

Short Love Quotes For Her

11.) I hear you voice in all the world’s noise.
Paul Eluard

12.) Where there is love, there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

13.) Promise me you’ll always be happy by my side. I promise I’ll sing to you when all the music dies.
Patrick Monahan

14.) Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Erich Segal from Love Story

15.) If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse

16.) I want to hear you think, or see your thoughts.
John Adams to Abigail Adams

17.) I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien

18.) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

19.) You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein

20.) Two hearts can enlighten the whole world.
Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

21.) Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination.
Voltaire

22.) True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

23.) Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

24.) I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E.M. Forster

Inspirational

25.) I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes.
Eric Clapton, “Wonderful Tonight”

26.) Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

27.) It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

28.) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

29.) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

30.) Two hearts in love need no words.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

31.) And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for awhile, cause you’re amazing, just the way you are.
Bruno Mars, Just the Way You Are song

32.) Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso

33.) They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner

34.) Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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35.) Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare from Romeo and Juliet

36.) The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

37.) Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

38.) All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
Johnny Cash

39.) Heaven is a place on earth with you.
Lana Del Rey, Video Games song

40.) Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
Paulo Coelho

41.) Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine. Love is the diamond.
Rumi

42.) So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

43.) When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix 

Short Love Quotes For Him

44.) Love is friendship that has caught fire.
Ann Landers

45.) I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.
Margaret Atwood

46.) When I fall in love, it will be forever.
Jane Austen

47.) For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

48.) Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

49.) Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

50.) In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

51.) I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.
Angelita Lim

Love Sayings

52.) We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

53.) You’re my downfall, you’re my muse My worst distraction, my rhythm and blues.
Johnny Legend

54.) Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller

55.) If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W.H. Auden

56.) I’m on your magical mystery ride, And I’m so dizzy, don’t know what hit me, but I’ll be alright.
Johnny Legend

57.) Love is like the wind you can’t see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks

58.) We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike

59.) To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

60.) And we loved with a love that was more than love…
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

61.) Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

62.) You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

63.) Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove.
John Donne from The Bait

Cute Love Quotes

64.) There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved.
George Sand

65.) Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

66.) Some people are worth melting for.
Olaf from Frozen

67.) It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

68.) Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s alright to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
The Hunger Games

69.) You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
Rhett Butler

70.) I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher

71.) I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.
Unknown

72.) The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.
Richard Warren

Romantic

73.) Each time you happen to me all over again
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

74.) And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables

75.) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.
Sophocles

76.) The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

77.) I kiss your vision as it rises before my mind.
Winston Churchill, in a letter to Clementine Churchill

–Mike O’Halloran

In addition to being a curator of quotes, Mike is an author, inventor, and entrepreneur. He worked as president of Magnetic Poetry, creators of the ubiquitous refrigerator magnets folks use to create verse in their kitchens.

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40 Funny Ways to Say “I Love You”

Saying “I love you” in a romantic sense can be a difficult thing to do.  You’re exposing yourself. The response may not be positive. There’s a risk. The good news: there are many ways to express your feelings to the one that you love. Sometimes, injecting a little humor helps. And, on this page, we’ve come to your assistance with some ideas.

40 Funny Ways to say “I Love You”

While “there must be 50 ways to leave your lover”; we only came up with 40 funny ways to say, “I love you.” Lucky for you, we made every one count. Hope you enjoy. And, don’t be shy, try a few on for size.

1.) Read between the swines: “I love you.”

It’s always better to have a well-crafted pun that is really beautifully romantic, well-structured prose, right? Just don’t hog all of the good lines for yourself. If pigs don’t work for you, try placing lines of perennials and direct your lover to: “read between the pines.”

2.) You are the crayons to my coloring book.

An interesting I Love You phrase that can be read in many ways on many different levels. For us, it symbolizes the completeness that one person can bring to another. You know, the whole “you complete me” thing.

3.) I’ve fallen for you…and I can’t get up.

This might work best for the senior set, who will remember the old LifeCall medical alarm commercial. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” was the reoccurring theme. Plus, they’ll understand the nuances of the older you get, “the thrill of the hunt” becomes “the joy of survival.”

4.) I just wanna be your teddy bear. Well, not a soft, squishy teddy bear, but more of a rock hard, six-pack teddy bear.

You get it. When Elvis sings, people listen.

5.) When I look at you, I feel a warmth in my heart. At least I think it’s warmth, I did have a burrito for lunch.

They say, “the stomach is the best way to a man’s heart,”and it’s true. Why? Well, because food is the second thing men are most frequently thinking about.

6.) If I wrote the book of love, you would be my dedication.

Okay, so it’s not very funny, but it is the type of cute I love you saying that goes a long way to showing you care. Sometimes it pays to play the romance card instead of the humor one. Trust me.

7.) Let’s get it on! No really, stop laughing, let’s get it on!

When there’s a fire in the furnace, the feelings intensify. Proceed with caution with this one. Best used in long-term relationships.

8.) Kiss me, I’m crazy about you! Okay, well maybe I’m just crazy.

You have to admit it, we all know someone like this. The guy who occasionally goes out in his underwear to get his mail.

9.) Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Okay, let’s see, one, two, three…er, uh three!

Well, three is better than two.

10.) Your touch makes me quiver,
Your look makes me shiver.
I hope you’re a giver,
Cause I think I can deliver!

Hmmm…a little but like a limerick.

11.) I’d like you to guest star on my Love Boat.

Some of you are probably too young to remember the TV series “The Love Boat.” It was the stories of passengers that found love on the high seas, or at the very least: high jinx!

12.) My feelings for you are a miracle. Not like walking on water, but pretty darn close.

Miracles are a touchy subject, but anybody who can make you feel like a miracle is someone very special.

13.) Has anyone ever told you that you’re hot?
No really, I think you might be coming down with something.
But I love you anyway.
Now seriously, back away.

This could easily be a true story.

14.) Sometimes I think you’re just a dream.
But then I wake up and realize you’re my special nightmare.

Love is strange and sometimes it can seem like you’re in the Twilight Zone, but somehow reality steps in, and you instinctively discover your true soulmate.

15.) I see stars when I look in your eyes.
Or maybe it’s a concussion, hmmm…could be love too.

Nothing can stir up the pangs of love like a good blow to the head.

16.) If I could only have one guest for dinner, it would be you.
Not as the main dish, as a companion of course.

That got awkward really quickly.

17.) I have felt the sting of cupid’s arrow and the pain I feel for you.

Sometimes, love hurts. Yeah, yeah.

18.) I got my glasses checked, and now I believe in love at first sight.
I didn’t recognize you before.

Funny how love can bring a clear picture of the things we really need.

19.) When you frown, my mood is down.
And when you smile, I fly a mile.
When you laugh, my worries are cut in half.
But when you sing, well frankly you’re no Bing.

Reality bites. And, there are just so few of us great singers on this planet.

20.) You are like a cup of tea by the fire.
Warm, and a little bit hot, sparkling too.

For some reason, romance and love always seems to be associated with a nice, bright fire. Perhaps passion is love’s fire log.

21.) I try to think of you all the time.
And when I’m not thinking of you,
I think of ways I could be thinking of you.
And when I’m not thinking of the ways I could be thinking of you,
I get confused and have to start over.

I have a headache.

22.) I don’t know how you do what you do,
but I do know that what you do,
makes me want to do it too.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. 

23.) A kiss is worth a thousand words.
Here’s my new book…smooch, smooch, smooch!

If only this were true, writing would be so much easier.

24.) I will love you more tomorrow, then I love you today.
And I love you more yesterday, than I did today.
Some people call me “The Love Procrastinator.”

What can I say?

25.) They say you are the sun, the moon, and the stars.
For me, you are the dishes, the laundry, and the stove.
No really, I mean it.

So heartfelt, I have a tear in my eye. And soon, I’ll be sleeping on the couch.

26.) Love is in the air.
Ok, it’s me…sorry.

I had beans for dinner.

It is a fact of life that everyone passes gas at some point. Often, even a well-timed cough can’t cover it up.

27. In my heart is a beautiful feeling for you.
Either that, or I have atrial fibrillation.

“A fib” is a big catch phrase on TV commercials for blood thinners these days.

28.) You pull at my heart strings,
And play my brain like a violin.

Music and romance go hand in hand.

29.) I may have had one too many cocktails.
But in my eyes, you’re a vision!
A vision of what I’m not quite sure.
But a vision none the less.

A little hair of the dog can often cloud true love and sometime make it seem more passionate then it really is.

30.) Be mine with all your heart and soul.
Some nice roses wouldn’t hurt either.

Emotions are all well and good, but some tangible gifts are refreshing.

31.) Let’s be love birds…
And poop on a car.

Okay, maybe I crossed a line here, but you have to admit it is kind of funny.

32.) Dove, glove, above, shove, whereof…hmmm.
A poet struggling for a rhyme for love.
But, you’re worth the struggle. I love you.

Sometimes, writing is just hard.

33.) If I were a flower, I would bloom in your sunshine.
If I were a weed, I would wither in your shadow.

Deep, not really funny, just deep.

34.) I’m so glad I found you…
I was looking for my keys.

For some reason, the phrase “looking for love in all the wrong places” comes to mind.

35.) Love is like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you are going to get,
But there’s always a surprise.

Aw, isn’t that cute? Apologies to Mrs. Gump. 

36.) Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote…
“Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.”
No!

Right? No, just no.

37.) There must be a reason I fell in love with you.
For the life of me, I just can’t think of it right now.

How quickly we forget.

38.) Love is everything.
Everything is love.

I don’t know, I was just feeling kind of Zen in the moment.

39.) I love you because you’re perfect.
And believe me, I should know.

Oh yeah, it takes one to know one.

40.) When all else fails, to win a heart, do the dishes!

From the “actions-speak-louder-than-words-camp,” fall back on a proven winner.

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There you have it. Try a different saying every day of the week for fun. And, save your best for Valentine’s Day, birthdays, and anniversaries.

–Tim Moodie

Tim Moodie is a Copywriter and Creative Director. He spent many years writing funny greeting cards, coffee mugs, and toilet paper for Recycled Paper Products. In addition, he created the box copy for novelty gifts including the Jesse Ventura Action Figures.

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