Valentine’s Day is one of those days when it feels natural to slow down and to celebrate the love you share with your special someone.
Maybe you’ve been together for a long time (like I have been with my wife for the past 15 years). Maybe you have just found a new love in your life.
No matter what your situation is, I hope you’ll find today’s post helpful.
In it I want to share 110 of the most loving, uplifting and funny Valentine’s Day quotes for your wife, your husband or for new lovers.
Share one or a few of your favorites with your loved one in real life, on a card or on social media like Instagram to express how you truly feel.
Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Wife
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“You feel more like home to me than any place I’ve ever been.”
– Angela N. Blount
“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.”
– Amie Kaufman
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
– E.E. Cummings
“You’re something between a dream and a miracle.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“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
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.”
– Fawn Weaver
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault
“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.”
– Robert Jordan
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
“My heart is and always will be yours.”
– Jane Austen
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou
“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.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”
– Pablo Neruda
“I am grateful that you were born, that your love is mine, and our two lives are woven and welded together.”
– Mark Twain
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”
– Edmond Rostand
“My soul and your soul are forever tangled.”
– N.R. Hart
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough.”
– George Moore
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Husband
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”
– Joanne Woodward
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
– Honore de Balzac
“He was my north, my south, my east and west, my working week and my Sunday rest.”
– W.H. Auden
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
“You make me want to be a better man.”
– Melvin Udall (from the movie As Good As It Gets)
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
– Jane Austen
“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
– Jamie McGuire
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“I look at every day with you as a gift.”
– Rip Wheeler (from the TV-show Yellowstone)
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
– Jane Austen
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
– Elaine Davis
“I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him.”
– Blake Lively
“I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
– Kiersten White
Cute and Romantic Valentine’s Day Quotes for New Lovers
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love comes from the most unexpected places.”
– Barbra Streisand
“When you are in love, you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
– Jeremy Taylor
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
“It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them.”
– Anurag Prakash Ray
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
– Andre Breton
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
– Loretta Young
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
– Ed Sheeran
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.”
– Elvis Presley
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.”
– Trent Shelton
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”
– John Green
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together.”
– Sam Baldwin (from the movie Sleepless in Seattle)
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
– Ann Landers
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi
“I never want to stop making memories with you.”
– Pierre Jeanty
“I have seen the best and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
– Sarah Kay
“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.”
– Harry Burns (from the movie When Harry Met Sally)
Short Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Wife or Husband
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
– Audre Lorde
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
– Frank Sinatra
“There are never enough I love you’s.”
– Lenny Bruce
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
– Honore de Balzac
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
– John Lennon
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“A kiss makes the heart young again.”
– Rupert Brooke
“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.”
– Samuel Lover
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“We are most alive when we’re in love.”
– John Updike
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
– Jane Austen
Funny Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Wife or Husband
“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
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
– Agatha Christie
“Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”
– George Burns
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
– Jules Renard
“Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
– Michael Scott (from the TV-show The Office)
“Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
– Jay Leno
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”
– Lucille Ball
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.”
– Tim Allen
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates
“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.”
– Cher
“Love is sharing your popcorn.”
– Charles Schulz
“Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.”
– Richard Jeni
“True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
– Mindy Kaling
“Love is blind – marriage is the eye-opener.”
– Pauline Thomason
“Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.”
– Fran Lebowitz
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
“When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
– Rita Rudner
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles M. Schulz
Want more inspiration for your celebration of love? Then have a look at the these inspirational Valentine’s Day quotes, this one with Valentine’s Day quotes for friends and also this post full of funny Valentines Day quotes.