Valentine's Day quotes
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F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Source: Selected Poems

Susan Sontag photo

“Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Bell Hooks photo

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Henry Kissinger photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Erich Segal photo
Ingrid Bergman photo

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

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994

Sarah Dessen photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Maya Angelou photo
Miranda July photo

“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Elie Wiesel photo
Chinmayananda Saraswati photo

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

John Green photo

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

Thomas Moore photo

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

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The future was not what it used to be.”

Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)

Jane Wagner photo

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

Other material for Lily Tomlin

“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3

Fred Rogers photo
Jonathan Swift photo

“Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

George Moore (novelist) photo

“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 (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist

Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.

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

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Jay Leno photo

“Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, extortion day. ”

Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host
Hubert H. Humphrey photo