It's Valentine's Day. That means it's time to dust off your romantic side. Let out all that poetry you've kept hidden inside for far too long. Be the sweet talker you were meant to be.
Or...you could take the easy way out. Use one of these romantic quotes to sign your Valentine card or to impress a special someone face to face. You'll likely find at least one that says just what you would have said — someone else just happened to think of it first.


I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

You're nothing short of my everything.
Ralph Block

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arnay

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann

...Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Mozart

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
Unknown

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Francois Mauriac

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov