Valentines Day Quotes and Romantic Sweetheart Sayings

Our Happy Valentine’s Day quotes are sure to put your significant other in a romantic mood

There is no day like Valentine’s Day, and it is the best occasion to express love to your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, or even your long-time friends.

Whether it’s someone you are just beginning to date or someone who has been beside you for decades, this is the day to tell them how much they matter to you. The right words can rekindle an old fire or ignite a fire where there is none.

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Happy Valentine’s Day Quotes

If you are looking for the right message to send to your loved one, here are some famous Valentine’s quotes. Whether it is to add a little bit of spice to your relationship or show your dedication and commitment to your partner, choose the right message to make your loved one feel special!

Romantic

Your hand looks heavy; let me hold it for you.

Ok, this is one of those Valentine’s Day quotes that might just as easily generate a groan as a smile. But, sometimes, you just have to go for it. In the right place and at the right time, it could be a home run. Swing for the fences.

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You make my heart go BOOM!

A quote for your valentine that is sure to get her attention. It might be better used by a guy to a gal because it sounds like something a guy would say. A little bit like a caveman, but authentic and real.

This is what our love is – a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Here’s a more cerebral attempt at a valentine’s quote by Aberjhani.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Boethius lays it on the line by noting that love trumps all other laws.

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

Here’s a really deep, romantic thought by Rabindranath Tagore. Save this one for when you’re going deep in the playbook.

We loved with a love that is more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote this in Annabel Lee. Essentially he’s saying we’re the all-stars of love, which isn’t a bad thought to express to your sweetheart.

Let Me Call You, Sweetheart

1.) Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Sean Connery

2.) Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.
Ted Kooser

3.) We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

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Funny Quotes for Valentine’s Day

4.) Behind every successful man is a woman; behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

5.) Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerome K. Jerome

6.) Love – By a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise, and the lips to pucker.
Unknown

7.) Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
Mirabeau

8.) One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde

9.) All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

10.) Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Hoosier Farmer

11.) Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Cathy Carlyle

12.) Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

13.) Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

14.) Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the Braille weren’t so damned much fun.
Armistead Maupin

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For Him

15.) Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I’ve tried.
Sarah McLachlan

16.) Whatever our souls are made of,
his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

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17.) I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I’m with you.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18.) Before I met you
I never knew what it was like
To look at someone
And smile for no reason.
Unknown

19.) If love is a language of the heart,
my heart speaks volumes.
P. Colby

20.) A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
William Shakespeare

21.) It’s been said that you only truly fall in love once, but I don’t believe it.
Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again.
Unknown

22.) In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany

For Friends

23.) Love is friendship, and friendship is love. If love fails, friendship should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love.
Unknown

24.) There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life’s storms in the harbor of friendship.
David Baird

25.) Love is temporary, but friends are forever.
Kelly Wheeler

26.) There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Francoise D’Aubegne Maintenon

27.) One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, and a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams

28.) Some people care too much; I think it’s called love.
Winnie the Pooh

29.) The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word, ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia Maria Child

30.) No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we’ll start with forever.
Edward Cullen

31.) There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other’s friends.
David Baird

Romantic Sayings For Her

32.) You should be kissed, and often, by someone who knows how.
Gone with the Wind

33.) I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.
Ben Rector

34.) Your lips are like wine, and I want to get drunk.
William Shakespeare

35.) My life with you is something that I would never trade, even for all of the riches under Heaven.
Unknown

36.) I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.
Ingrid Michaelson

37.) There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.
Steve Maraboli

38.) With every beat of my heart, my love for you grows stronger. You’re the rhythm that keeps me steady on the march through life.
Unknown

39.) Yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen.
Sir Elton John

40.) Home is wherever I’m with you.
Edward Sharpe

41.) No matter how much I give you, you always deserve more than that. No amount of love can ever pay for all you give to my life.
Unknown

Cute Valentines Day Quotes

42.) All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

43.) There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment
Sarah Dessen

44.) Better let my heart be without words than my words without heart.
John Bunyan

45.) Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

46.) My love for you has no depth; its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story
Christina White

47.) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

48.) Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings

49.) To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you are the world.
Bill Wilson

50.) Candlelight, moonlight, starlight, the brightest glow is from love light.
Grey Livingston

51.) I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything
F. Scott Fitzgerald

52.) Love is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats

53.) f you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you
Joan Powers

Love Sayings

54.) My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare

55.) Love is blind. That is why he always proceeds by touch.
French Proverb

56.) Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare

57.) Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

58.) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

59.) The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi

60.) Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

61.) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery – Who is this guy?

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Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Sweetheart

62.) I’d like to propose a toast to us: I’m begging you to be my Valentine. Just don’t go bacon my heart.
Unknown

63.) You’re berry beautiful.
Unknown

64.) I think you are purr-fect!
Unknown

64.) When kissing, you know tulips are better than one.
Unknown

65.) You’ve taken a pizza my heart.
Unknown

66.) You are the apple of my eye.
Unknown

67.) It is ‘ruff’ when you are not around.
Unknown

Heartfelt Valentine’s Day Quotes

68.) When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening because everything happens within you.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

70.) I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

71.) Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

72.) The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

73.) The most important day of the year to say ‘I love you’ is every day, not just on Valentine’s Day. In marriage, never take the other person for granted. Expressing your love shows your appreciation for the person.
Catherine Pulsifer

74.) And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while. ’Cause you’re amazing, just the way you are.
Bruno Mars

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

Short Valentine’s Day Quotes

76.) All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.
Ed Sheeran

77.) Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Paulo Coelho

78.) Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.
Trent Shelton

79.) Love was made for me and you.
Nat King Cole

80.) Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

81.) Love isn’t finding the perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

Amusing Quotes

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

83.) I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life
Rita Rudner

84.) Today is Valentine’s Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Jay Leno

Best Valentine’s Day Quotes

85.) Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.
Elvis Presley

86.) Valentine’s Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow.
Roy A. Ngansop

87.) Love is friendship that has caught on fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

88.) Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

89.) Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou

90.) When you love someone, you love the whole person just as he or she is and not as you would like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy, The Alchemist

91.) Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn

92.) When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Nora Ephron

93.) There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
Reese Witherspoon

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

95.) Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Theresa

96.) Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Notable Love Quotes

97.) We cannot help conforming ourselves to what we love.
Saint Francis de Sales, Treatise of the Love of God

98.) Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world reality.
Theodor Reik

99.) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

100.) Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy; it does not boast; it is not proud.
The Bible, 1 Corinthians

101.) Out of love, you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty, The Eye of the Story

102.) You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing In The World

103.) There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

104.) We should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardor of its passion but by its strength and constancy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis

105.) It comes in at the eyes and subdues the body. An army with banners. My God, every poet in the world knew about it except me.
Louise Bogan, What the Woman Lived

106.) Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead, speech to the National Council of Women

Love and Romance Quotes

107.) The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde

108.) Listening is an act of love.
Dave Isay

109.) Young love is about wanting to be happy. Old love is about wanting someone else to be happy.
Mary Pipher

110.) To love a person means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

111.) Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

112.) A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Love and Relationships

114.) The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway

115.) Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical

116.) A bed takes up a very small space in a house. You don’t spend a marriage sleeping with a person but waking with her.
Herman Wouk

117.) Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

118.) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antione de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars

119.) Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.
Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace of Mind

Strong Relationship Quotes

120.) Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle and loving as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales, quoted in My Sermon-notes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

121.) A broken heart sometimes stretches when it mends.
Herman Wouk

121.) Where there is love, there is pain.
Spanish Proverb

122.) To love is to stop comparing.
Merrit Malloy

123.) Anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.
Desiderius Erasmus

124.) A strong marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin