Quotes about love may be wise, romantic, and even humorous. Some will remind us of love that shouldn’t be taken for granted. A few will make us laugh at those moments when love is tested. And other quotes just simply add that extra touch to our Valentine’s Day cards.
Below you’ll find 100 romantic and humorous (but not too cheesy) love quotes for your entertainment.
1. “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
2. “We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
3. “I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love” – Robert Tizon
4. “Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.” – Unknown
5. “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy
6. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
7. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Germaine De Stael
8. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
9. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
10. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities” – Janos Arnay
11. “The life and love we create is the life and love we live.” – Leo Buscaglia
12. “The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” – William Shakespeare
13. “Love me and the world is mine.” – David Reed
14. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
15. “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown
16. “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain
17. “There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” – Melanie Griffith
18. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
19. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
20. “I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
21. A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous. – Ingrid Bergmen
22. “He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.” – Rabrindranath Tagore
23. “Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao-Tzu
24. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
25. “I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. “The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.” – Josiah G. Holland
27. “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao-Tzu
28. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – David Henry Thoreau
29. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin Jones
30. “If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?” – Unknown
31. “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” – Ivan Panin
32. “Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
33. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
34. “Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.” – Unknown
35. “If you have love, you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.” – James M. Barrie
36. “We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh.” – Alice Reppler
37. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
38. “Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.” – Shakespeare
39. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn
40. “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa
41. “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” – Robert Brault
42. “Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
43. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
44. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Thoreau
45. “Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned.” – William Butler Yeats
46. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” – Samuel Butler
47. “Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.” – Christopher Marlowe
48. “Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore
49. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
50. “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” – James Earl Jones
51. “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” – James Earl Jones
52. “The great question… which I have not been able to answer… is, ‘What… does a woman want?'” – Sigmund Freud
53. “There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.” – Don Juan DeMarco
54. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder
55. “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” – Martin Luther
56. “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
57. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
58. “To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
59. “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.” – Plato
60. “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” – Albert Einstein
61. “Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.” – Mignon McLaughlin
62. “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Theresa
63. “Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” – Chris Moore
64. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
65. “When a heart finds another, what’s a cloud more or less in the sky?” – Wolf and Page
66. “Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.” – Robert Fulghum
67. “We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” – Benjamin Disraeli
68. “People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
69. “Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm
70. “One love, one heart, one destiny.” – Bob Marley
71. “I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.” – Woody Allen
72. “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
73. “You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” – Melanie Clark
74. “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
75. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire
76. “Thou art to me a delicious torment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. “I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you.” – Unknown
78. “Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.” – Unknown
79. “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
80. “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
81. “The four most important words in any marriage… ‘I’ll do the dishes.'” – Unknown
82. “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
83. “Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.” – Billy Crystal
84. “Paradise is always where love dwells.” – Jean Paul Richter
85. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia
86. “In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker” – Woody Allen
87. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
88. “It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.” – Erich Fromm
89. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” – Swedish Proverb
90. “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner
91. “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
92. “We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
93. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
94. “When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you… When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you… When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you… Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.” – Rene Yasenek
95. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
96. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
97. “Love is not a matter of counting the years… But making the years count.” – Michelle Amand
98. “For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gerard
99. “Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
100. “The heart has no wrinkles.” – Marie de Sevigne
