Cupid Has Nothing on These 65 Valentine's Day Quotes

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and with it comes all the pink and red merch, sweet treats and extra-special date nights. But remember: Sharing some heartfelt words in a Valentine's Day card message (and V-Day caption on Instagram) is always one of the best ways to celebrate. If you're unsure exactly how to write your love note or worry you don't have the right words, these lovely Valentine's Day quotes for her, him or them will surely get the ideas flowing. Thus, we've rounded up some inspirational love quotes for Valentine's Day to help get you started.

Whether you aim to make your V-Day date laugh with a couple of funny Valentine's Day quotes or swoon with romantic quotes about Valentine's Day, you'll likely find the words you're searching for below.

Scroll on to see 65 of the greatest "Happy Valentine's Day" quotes, spoken by renowned authors and poets, joked by all-star comedians and pulled straight from some of our favorite rom-coms and sitcoms.

In this article:

• Short Valentine's Day Quotes
• Funny Valentine's Day Quotes
• Cute Valentine's Day Quotes
• Romantic Valentine's Day Quotes
• Flirty Valentine's Day Quotes
• Single Valentine's Day Quotes

Short Valentine's Day Quotes

Your valentine love quotes don't have to be long to be meaningful. If you want to keep your Valentine's Day quotes short and sweet, these few should do the trick.

• "Love means never having to say you're sorry." —Love Story
• "You are my greatest adventure." —The Incredibles
• "Where there is love, there is life." —Mahatma Gandhi
• "Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be." —Robert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
• "Some people are worth melting for." —Frozen
• "I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else." —The Wedding Date
• "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." —Plato
• "Love is a friendship set to music." —Joseph Campbell
• "My dream wouldn't be complete without you in it." —Princess and the Frog
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." —Audrey Hepburn
• "I love you and I like you." —Parks and Recreation
• "My heart is, and always will be, yours." —Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Funny Valentine's Day Quotes

If you're looking to make 'em LOL, here are some of our favorite funny V-Day quotes perfect for a midday text, surprise Post-It note message and more.

• "Without Valentine's Day, February would be, well, January." —Jim Gaffigan
• "The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day." —Tom Robbins
• "Before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are." —Will Ferrell
• "Oh, here's an idea: Let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all." —Jimmy Fallon
• "I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?" —Jean Illsley Clarke
• "It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes." —Lucille Ball
• "If you're ever with a girl that's too good for you, marry her." —Valentine's Day
• "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." —Jules Renard
• "Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind." —27 Dresses
• "But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime." —Nicholas Sparks
• "I love you and it's getting worse." —Joseph Morris

Cute Valentine's Day Quotes

Better than anything written on a Conversation Heart, these adorable Valentine's Day quotes boast sentiments as sweet as sugar.

• "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love, true love." —Robert Fulghum, True Love
• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." —Dr. Seuss
• "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." —When Harry Met Sally
• "You don't love because, you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults." —William Faulkner, Mississippi
• "When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that." —John Krasinski
• "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." —Franklin P. Jones
• "I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person." —50 First Dates
• "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." —Charles Schulz
• "No measure of time with you will be long enough." —Twilight
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Romantic Valentine's Day Quotes

Here are some of the best valentine quotations about love that you can use to profess your affection or text your love to make them swoon.

• "Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet." —Katharine Lee Bates
• "Two hearts in love need no words." —Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
• "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." —Maya Angelou
• "There is no remedy for love but to love more." —Henry David Thoreau
• "And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I." —John Mark Green
• "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." —Aristotle
• "I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me, every day." —Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
• "Valentine's Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow." —Roy A. Ngansop
• "There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." —Bram Stoker, Dracula
• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• "You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever." —Love & Other Drugs
• "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." —Albert Einstein

Flirty Valentine's Day Quotes

Looking for quotes for Valentine's Day that are less serious and more flirty? Here are some of the sexiest Valentine's quotes. (They'll help set the tone for a steamy little V-Day romp!)

• "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." —Notting Hill
• "You are everything I never knew I always wanted." —Fools Rush In
• "You know, it's dangerous for you to be here in the frozen foods section because you could melt all this stuff." —My Blue Heaven
• "I don't bite, you know, unless it's called for." —Charade
• "You give me premature ventricular contractions. You make my heart skip a beat." —No Strings Attached
• "I hate to see you go, I love to watch you leave." —Face/Off
• "You turned my bed into a sacred oasis." —Taylor Swift, "Dancing With Our Hands Tied"
• "Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you." —Virginia Woolf
  
• "You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed often, and by someone who knows how." —Gone with the Wind
• "Was that cannon fire, or is my heart pounding?" —Casablanca

Single Valentine's Day Quotes

If you're flying solo this Feb. 14, then famous Valentine's Day quotes for lovers probably won't strike the right tone. Instead, consider these good Valentine's quotes for singles and Galentine's Day quotes for your closest friends.

• "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods
• "Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies." —Candace Bushnell, Sex and The City
• "I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person." —Oscar Wilde
• "The course of true love never did run smooth." —William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• "I celebrate myself and sing myself." —Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
• "Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with." —Sex and The City
• "I don't need Prince Charming to have my own happy ending." —Katy Perry
• "I'm single because I was born that way." —Mae West
• "Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says 'Do Not Disturb' on your heart." —Wiz Khalifa
• "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." —Oscar Wilde

Additional reporting by Shyla Watson