Valentine
Definition: A card sent on St. Valentine's Day, February 14, to a person one loves or is attracted to.
Number of Quotes: 51
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
W. H. Auden
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the
soft word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in
some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Honoré de Balzac
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moments
together. Now I cannot live apart from you ... Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Robert Burns
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Chops
because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's
and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him in bed at night
And was always there to do it
Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it Autumn
because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a poem
And he called it Innocence: A Question
because that was the question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly
That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it Absolutely Nothing
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think
he could reach the kitchen.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out.
Roy Croft
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings
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
My heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine,
My lips to thy lips,
Kisses are wine ...
Paul Dunbar
There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
Henry van Dyke
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those
who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke
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
For, you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gérard
I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly
and is more active than before. And love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the
same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
Vincent van Gogh
What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone -
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Friedrich Halm
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
E. Y. Harburg
The sea has its pearls,
The heavens its stars,
I love you without question,
But my heart, my heart,
My heart has its love.
Heinrich Heine
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
Thomas Hood
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine,
Love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Thomas Hood
When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each
other...there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a
union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven...This is the love which you inspire in me.
Victor Hugo
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.
John Keats
Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe
Where both deliberate, the love is slight;
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe
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
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Thomas Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
For one man is my world of all the men
This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
Christina Rossetti
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.
Othello
William Shakespeare
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;
Why not I with thine?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson
And I shall dream both before and after I go to sleep, of the little flower that has sprung up in the desert beside me and shed its
fragrance over my life and made its ways attractive with its beauty and turned its weariness to contentment with its sweet spirit. And I shall
bless you, my darling, out of a fullness of a heart that knows your worth beyond the ken of any ... better than all others I can love you, and
do love you, and shall always love you, always. Good night, darling - and peaceful slumbers refresh you and ministering angels attend you.
Mark Twain
I do love you...as the dew loves the flowers;
as the birds love the sunshine;
as the wavelets love the breeze...
as the angels love the pure in heart.
Mark Twain
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
Virgil
I give you my love
More precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself?
Will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other
As long as we live?
Walt Whitman
My deepest, strongest desire in marrying you, Darling, is to make you happy, and I would put into this some word of love which would
seem to your heart a sort of sweet preface to the book of love which we are about to open together, to read new secrets of sympathy and
companionship. I would have you catch a glimpse of my purpose for the future and of the joy which that future contains for me, of the
gratitude I feel for your priceless gift of love, and of the infinite love and tenderness which is the gift of my whole heart to you.
Woodrow Wilson
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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