Traditional Valentine's Day Quotes

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning Hamilton

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

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

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

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