Romantic quotes of love and passion flow with intense affection on Valentine’s Day, the special day of lovers. Good Valentine's Day gifts include best cards. Other expressions of love is shown in beautiful flowers, and chocolates. Here are best romantic love quotes and sayings best for Valentine’s Day cards and love letters.
Lord Byron's Quote on Love
George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron — also known as Lord Byron — (1788-1824) was an English poet, a leading figure in Romantic movement. Just as his poems were famous, so were his love affairs.
Aside from his best known poems such as “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted,” Lord Byron is famous for long poem, Don Juan, considered his masterpiece. He is credited with this quote about love:
“Alas! The love of women! It is known to be a lovely and fearful thing.” ~Lord Byron
Valentine's Day Quote From Joan Crawford
Lucille Fay LeSueur, better known as Joan Crawford, (1908-1977) was a famous American actress in film, television and theatre. Joan Crawford offered this quotation about love:
"Love is fire. Whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ~Joan Crawford
Zelda Zayre Fitzgerald Quotes on Love
Zelda Zayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948) was an American novelist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They were a popular couple, an icon of the 1960s "Roaring Twenties" or the Jazz Age. This is what she had to say about the nature of love:
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.” ~Zelda Zayre Fitzgerald
D. H. Lawrence Quotations on Love
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (D.H. Lawrence) (1885-1930) was an English novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is one of twentieth century’s most important authors, famous for frank descriptions of sexual relations between men and women. He is famous for novels such as Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Women in Love.
On the topic of love, D.H. Lawrence is credited with this quotation:
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” ~D.H. Lawrence
François de la Rochefoucauld Love Quotes
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac, (1613-1680) was a French writer of memoirs and maxims. He offered these quotes about love:
“The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which on inspires.” ~F. de la Rochefoucauld
“Absence diminishes moderate passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and adds fury to fire.” ~F. de la Rochefoucauld
George Santayana's Quotations for Valentine's Day
Jorge Agustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras, also known as George Santayana, (1863-1952) was a twentieth century great thinker, a philosopher, poet, and novelist. Although he was raised and educated in the United States, he remained a Spanish citizen and wrote mainly in English. George Santayana offered this quote about love:
“In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality … The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.” ~George Santayana
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Love Quotes
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was an English poet, one of the finest lyric poets of the English language, and regarded the most important English poet of the Victorian era.
“’Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Valentine's Day Special for Lovers
What joy when one who loves is loved back. Thanks to numerous immortal romantic quotes and sayings from inspiring minds who wrote them, such lovely quotations are now beautifully printed in Valentine's cards or quoted in love letters that go with a box of chocolate and lovely bunch of red roses.
Can new ways be found to show this beautiful undescribable feeling called love, aside from the proven gifts of chocolotes, roses, or Valentine's cards with sweetly quoted words? Yes, there are a thousand ways to show one's affection, which brings to mind a lovely quote from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan to Wendy:
""Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked, and jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her." ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
For more Valentine's Day ideas, readers may want to check out more quotations for Valentine's Day card or a simple love letter in these articles: Love Quotes for Valentine from Writers, along with Love Quotes and Sayings from Famous Great Thinkers. They may also enjoy learning about Love Comedy Plays from English Playwrights.
Sources:
Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury (1994).
Dictionary of Writers, Larousse, edited by Rosemary Goring (1994).
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