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“Ah, love!” It truly is a “many splendored things,” and rightly so. What better day to celebrate it than on the Day of Hearts, Valentine’s Day. A genuinely ‘red-letter day’ is a romantic holiday that allows everyone to express our true feelings to all our loved ones. Of course, most of us have that one special someone who we consider our “Valentine.”
Traditionally celebrated on February 14th, Valentine’s Day has its roots from an early Christian feast honoring a third-century martyr named Saint Valentine. Some even attribute the influence of the Roman fertility feast of Lupercalia, dedicated to the Roman god of agriculture, Faunus. The Catholic Church replaced that pagan feast with St. Valentine’s during the purging years.
Only in the mid-15th century did Valentine become connected to romantic love and lovers. In 18th-century England, this tradition flourished to a more structured event where lovers profess their love for one another, offering gifts of flowers (usually red roses), sweets, and love-letters known as valentines.
The love letters had their beginnings from an old tradition of gentlemen picking out names of ladies from a jar to form couples for a public ceremony. These letters are the precursors of the contemporary Valentine cards, full of romantic Valentine’s quotes and declarations.
Modern Valentine’s Day symbols are the heart shape, red roses, cupid, doves or love-birds, and in some countries like Italy, keys (for unlocking the heart). The day is not a non-working holiday, but a significant commercial event nonetheless, surpassed only by Christmas in terms of merchandise turnover and economic value.
Furthermore, Valentine’s Day is celebrated worldwide, even arguably surpassing Christmas and Halloween in popularity altogether.
Flowers, particularly red roses, become ridiculously expensive during Valentine’s. Chocolates and other confectionery come in highly-imaginative and stylized (heart-shaped) containers and forms. Millions upon millions of greeting cards (commercial and private) are printed and exchanged.
Restaurants and food houses are filled to the brim with lines running around street corners, with theaters, hotels, and inns fully booked. Most of the establishments offer Valentine’s discounts and specials.
Groceries and supermarkets offer coupons commemorating the event. Traffic jams, busy streets, and even other transportation terminals (airports, train stations, piers) are full of people frantic to celebrate Valentines with their loved ones.
Weddings are scheduled on Valentine’s Day, and anniversaries celebrated lavishly or privately. People look forward to this day, evident in how they are decked out, and the women are dainty and beautiful, the men dashingly handsome.
Valentine’s day is so ingrained into modern society that songs, books, movies, and other literary works are full of references. There are even video games inspired by this occasion, although these are of the restricted variety.
However, they observed, Valentine is the celebration of the heart, of love romantic in nature, between two individuals struck by that awesome power that can move mountains and span rivers.
We have put together a compilation of the most beautiful and romantic Valentine’s Day quotes that you can use for your ‘valentines’ or greeting cards.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
Happy Valentine’s Day Quotes
I wanted to make it really special on Valentine’s Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours, I watched whatever I wanted on TV.
Tracy Smith
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.
Lewis Black
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.
H. L. Mencken
You know how people say, “you can’t live without love”? Well, oxygen is even more important.
Dr. Gregory Houser
Valentine’s Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.
Anonymous
If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.
Chelsea Peretti
Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.
George Burns
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Michael Scott, The Office
The thing about Valentine’s day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.
Faye Morgan
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
Melanie Griffith
Between lovers, a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland
Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.
Jim Gaffigan
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.
Chelsea Peretti
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.
Melanie White
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Valentine’s Day Funny Quotes
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
Dolly Parton
I didn’t fall for you, you tripped me!
Jenny Han
The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.
Sophie Monroe
You know how people say, ‘You can’t live without love’? Well, oxygen is even more important.
Dr. Gregory Houser
Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart.
Munia Khan
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.
David Sedaris
You’re never alone on Valentine’s Day if you’re near a lake and have bread.
Mike Primavera
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Nicholas Sparks
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Lucille Ball
My soul will find yours.
Jude Deveraux
A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.
Tim Allen
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse
A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.
Dax Shepard
Love Quotes For Valentine’s Day
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
If you text ‘I love you’ and the person writes back an emoji—no matter what that emoji is, they don’t love you back.
Chelsea Peretti
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
L. Frank Baum
It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do.
Unknown
Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
Tessa Dare
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.
Richard Jeni
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.
Stephanie Laurens
Love is a grave mental illness.
Plato
Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.
Stephanie Laurens
Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.
Phyllis Schlafly
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.
Mindy Kaling
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
Nicholas Sparks
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
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
Brene Brown
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
Oh here’s an idea: let’s make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine’s Day. That’s not weird at all.
Jimmy Fallon
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane Austen
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
Gillian Anderson
Quotes For Friends On Valentine’s Day
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
Pandora Poikilos
Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.
Unknown
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.
Pretty Woman
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
Dave Matthews Band
If love is the answer, then could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
Lauren Oliver
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing—and then marry him.
Cher
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.
Garry Shandling
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.
King Jaffe Joffer
You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.
Richelle Mead
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
Shmuley Boteach
Love is sharing your popcorn.
Charles Schulz
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway
I married for love. But the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find your glasses cannot be ignored.
Cameron Esposito
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you.
Lisa Kleypas
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
Jess C. Scott
We have put together a compilation of the most beautiful and romantic Valentine’s Day quotes that you can use for your ‘valentines’ or greeting cards.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
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