VALENTINE'S DAY QUOTES III

quotations about Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day quote

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

FERNANDO PESSOA

"Tobacco Shop"

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If you go to Penn Station after work on Valentine's Day, you can watch hordes of men panic en masse when they realize they don't have enough time to purchase a single cellophane-wrapped rose and make their train.

EMILY SUNDBERG

"12 Reasons Valentine's Day Is Actually the Best", New York Magazine, February 10, 2017


It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids on their windows by January second to rub it in.

JOAN BAUER

Thwonk


Valentine's Day is different. It's about the two of you. And no matter how you justify it by thinking it's a day of love in general, it's not. Yes, you can buy Valentine's Day cards for your son or daughter, mother and father, co-workers and friends to try to make it better. But there's really no escaping what it really is--a holiday for lovers.

BONNIE KAYE

Bonnie Kaye's Straight Talk


Sure, of all days that ever were dated,
Valentine's Day is the fullest of news;--
Then ev'ry lass expects to be mated
And Cupid goes round collecting his dues!

THOMAS HOOD

"Valentine's Day"

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I enjoyed some high school Valentine's Day dances. But there were other times when I stood against the wall, wondering why no one wanted to boogie with me. And as a single young woman, I had years when the holiday meant long-stemmed roses and candlelight dinners and others that saw me playing Solitaire until bedtime.

KATHY IDE

21 Days of Love: Stories That Celebrate Treasured Relationships


Saint Valentine is past;
Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream


When you're in elementary school, Valentine's Day is an obligatory dropping of cheap paper cards into construction-paper boxes in front of everybody's desk. In high school, perhaps an elaborate purchase of helium balloons that you have to carry around awkwardly from math class to first lunch. By the time you reach adulthood, the magic is kinda gone. If you're dating, you get to spend twice as much for the same meal at Intermezzo as you spent there last Saturday, and if you're single, don't even try to get a table; they're booked.

JASON JOHNSON

"Ditch the Doomsayers: Black Love Is Real This Valentine's Day, and Here Are 5 Facts to Prove It", The Root, February 14, 2016


Stay, little Valentine, stay,
Each day is Valentine's day.

LORENZ HART

"My Funny Valentine"


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

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Valentine's Day is the worst. It is the most self-sabotaging, cut-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face holiday we human beings have been stupid enough to come up with. This unmitigated annual disaster is devoted to celebrating, and so putting a microscope to, societal mores about what it means to be in romantic love. (And so also the even-more-fun part, hahaha -- the lonely inverse!)

DAVE BRY

"Valentine's Day expectations are a setup for heartbreak", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Valentine's Day can bring scrutiny on and strain your relationship. Rather than a happy occasion, it can feel like a Law and Order interrogation. Where is this relationship going? Do you love me? Why do we argue so much? Why do my parents call you a bum? When are you going to get a better job? When are we going to get married? When will we live in the same city? Is a yak really a good pet? Who is that other person that's sleeping in the bed with us?

BRUCE Y. LEE

"If You're Not Happy During Valentine's Day, You're Not Alone", Forbes, February 14, 2017


I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you ... and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

A Lick of Frost

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ

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Speaking of prisoners, this should be an interesting Valentine's Day at the White House. For instance, will Donald Trump get flowers from Vladimir Putin? We don't know. And what about his wife Melania? Will they spend the night together or will she remain trapped like Rapunzel at their apartment in New York? Melania has a new line of greeting cards. They carry them at CVS: "Happy Valentine's Day" (open it) "Save Me."

JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, February 8, 2017

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It's been projected that Americans will spend over $13 billion this Valentine's Day. And guys who forget Valentine's Day will spend over $100 billion.

CONAN O'BRIEN

Conan, February 13, 2012

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Do skunks celebrate Valentine's Day? Sure, they're very scent-imental!

JIM KRAUS

The Laugh-a-Day Book of Bloopers, Quotes & Good Clean Jokes


There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment.

SARAH DESSEN

The Truth About Forever

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This February 14th I declare V-Day; no, not V for Valentine ... V for Victory over a longstanding holiday that has twisted the hearts and minds of all who have been unfortunate enough to have been brainwashed by its evil pull since first placing store bought cards into tiny shoeboxes in elementary school. V for Victory over greedy swine toying with the emotional well being of the public at large to increase profit margins. But most importantly, V for Victory over longstanding feelings of inadequacy and unhappiness based on an arbitrary date on a calendar.

ALEXANDER KERN

"I Heart the Crotchety Bastard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Indifferent to Valentine's Day", February 14, 2006


At its poisoned little root, Valentine's Day is nothing more than a day of begrudging obligation dressing itself in a red velvet suit and doing its smarmy best to wander around starting some shit.

ALEXANDER KERN

"I Heart the Crotchety Bastard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Indifferent to Valentine's Day", February 14, 2006