On February 14 is Valentine’s Day. It’s assumed that this date traces back to bishop Valentine of Terni who is said to have married lovers despite an imperatorial ban on doing so. He is therfore seen as the patron of lovers. On 14 February 269 AD he was executed because of his Christian believes.
In England lovers used to exchange poems or small presents on Valentine’s day even back in the 15th century. In the 17th century people started to send flowers in response to those gifts.
In North America the habit of celebrating Valentine’s day was probably started by British settlers in the 19th century. Since then Valentine’s Day has got more and more popular all around the world and is nowadays celebrated in many differnet countries and cultures.
On this website you find the best love
quotes for Valentine’s day.
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1.quote for valentines day
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
by George Sand
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2.quote for valentines day
What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
by Victor Hugo
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3.quote for valentines day
Love asks me no questions,
and gives me endless support
by William Shakespear
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4.quote for valentines day
Love doesn't make the world go round,
love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
by Elizabeth Browning
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5.quote for valentines day
True love begins when
nothing is looked for in return.
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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6.quote for valentines day
I love you, not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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7.quote for valentines day
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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8.quote for valentines day
Love is that condition in which the happiness
of another person is essential to your own.
by Robert Heinlein
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9.quote for valentines day
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
by William Shakespear
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10.quote for valentines day
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
by The Bible, 1. Corinthians
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11.quote for valentines day
Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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12.quote for valentines day
If I know what love is,
it is because of you.
by Hermann Hesse
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13.quote for valentines day
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
by Samuel Lover
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14.quote for valentines day
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
and nights bright days
when dreams do show thee to me.
by William Shakespear
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15.quote for valentines day
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you,
I could walk in my garden forever.
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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16.quote for valentines day
I love thee to the depth and breadth
and height my soul can reach.
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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17.quote for valentines day
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
by Frederick Saunders
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18.quote for valentines day
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
by Thomas Hood
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