Valentine’s Day is that one day a year where everyone takes the extra effort to tell their special person how much they love them. This list of short Valentine’s day quotes that are cute, funny, or romantic will help you express how you feel. We included some short Valentine’s sayings, messages and captions too.
So whether you are looking for the perfect quote or message to include on your Valentine’s card or for an inspirational quote or caption for your Valentine’s post, we’ve got you covered.
Short Valentine’s Day Quotes
“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” — Aberjhani
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” — Albert Einstein.
“Valentine’s Day is a love-note to the rest of the year.” — Jo Lightfoot
“I love you bigger than the world and sky.” — Marty Klazmer
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.” — The Fault in Our Stars
“Everything I do, I do it for you.” — Bryan Adams
“Love can be defined with one word. You.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You had me at hello.” — Jerry Maguire
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.” — Douglas McGrath
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni
“To me, you are perfect.” — Mark, Love Actually
“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us.” — Penny Widmore, Lost
“All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
“My heart is and always will be yours.” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“You are, and always have been, my dream.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“I knew I loved you before I met you. I have been waiting all my life.” — Savage Garden
“As you wish.” — Wesley, The Princess Bride
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” — John Lennon
“The future for me is already a thing of the past. You were my first love and you will be my last.” — Bob Dylan
“There are never enough I Love You’s.” — Lenny Bruce
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor
“I want you for always…days, years, eternities.” — Kriss Stewart Franz Schubert
“And suddenly all the love songs were about you.” — Anonymous
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning
“In love there are two things– bodies and words.” – Joyce Carol Oates
“Love is our true destiny.” — Thomas Merton
“If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” — Samuel Lover
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theordore Roethke
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde
“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” — Maya Angelou
“And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while.” — Bruno Mars
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami
“I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
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“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
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
Short Quotes About Valentine’s Day and Love
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” — John Lennon
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran
“If you wanna be my lover, you’ve got to get with my friends.” — Spice Girls
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” — Ann Landers
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscot
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell
“Real love is built the old-fashioned way—through hard work.” — Danny Silk
“I will love you my whole life. You and no other.” — Braveheart
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Thoreau
“A valentine warms the heart.” — Kriss Stewart
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito
“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
“The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” — This Is Us
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
“When life leaves us blind, love leaves us kind.” — Linkin Park, “The Messenger”
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” — Corinthians 13:4-8
“I love you right up to the moon — and back.” — Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Valentine’s Day Captions, Valentine’s Day Sayings, Valentine’s Day Quotes for Him and Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes.
Short Funny Valentine Quotes
“Today is Valentine’s Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” — Jay Leno
“That’s one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine’s Day is just another day.” — Jawed Karim
“Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
“Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.” — Trent Shelton
“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.” — H. L. Mencken
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” — Lucille Ball
“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.” — George Burns
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman
“The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.” — Dolly Parton
“I didn’t fall for you, you tripped me!” — Jenny Han
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” — Tim Allen
“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery
“Love is a grave mental illness.” — Plato
“Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.” — Phyllis Schlafly
“If love is the answer, then could you rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin
“In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.” — Pretty Woman
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love” — Albert Einstein
“So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.” — King Jaffe Joffer
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schulz
“Love is blind—marriage is the eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
“You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.” — Hussein Nishah
“Never sign a Valentine with your own name.” — Charles Dickens
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” – William Goldman
“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” – Melanie Griffith
“I just want to be friends. Plus a little extra. Also, I love you.” — Dwight Schrute
“Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” — Cathy Carlyle
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.” — Sixteen Candles
“Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.” — Lewis Black
Cute Short Quotes to Say Happy Valentine’s Day
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young
“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” — Les Miserables
“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.” — The Wedding Date
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E. E. Cummings
“I love our story. Sure it’s messy, but it’s the story that got us here.” — How I Met Your Mother
“A kiss makes the heart young again.” — Rupert Brooke
“I love you more than I hate everything else.” – Rainbow Rowell
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
“Cause all of me loves all of you.” — John Legend
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher
“I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
“I love you the way a drowning man loves air.” – Rae Carson
“I do know some things. For example, I know I love you. I know you love me.” – Game of Thrones
“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ” – Open-365
“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” – Lauren Oliver
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” – Cassandra Clare
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!” — Thomas Hood
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.” — Elvis Presley
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” — Jane Austen
“On this Valentine’s Day my hope and wish is that our love will be forever.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal
“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.” — Victor Hugo
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“All you need is love.” — The Beatles
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
“Love was made for me and you.” — Nat King Cole
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë
“Valentine’s Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.” ― M.F.
“You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block
“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” — Bil Keane
“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Ghandi
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
“Take me to your heart. For it’s there that I belong. And will never part.” — Elvis Presley
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert Heinlein
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett
“To be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
Short Quotes About February: The Month of Love
“February is short and very sweet.” – Charmaine J Forde
“February days are a marketing gimmick, love happens every day.” – Randeep Hooda
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” – Jim Gaffigan
“Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.” – Charmaine J. Forde
“In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.” – Patience Strong
“February always seem to give more joy than other months. Maybe because it’s the month of love.” – Unknown
“The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day.” – Tom Robbins
Slightly Longer Valentines Quotes
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon
“You are my Valentine because you bring love to my life each and every day. I love you more each and every day, in every way.” — Kate Summers
“The most important day of the year to say ‘I love you’ is everyday, not just on Valentine’s Day.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“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.” — The Chaos of Stars
“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
“Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.” — Melanie White
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt the truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” — William Shakespeare
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.” – Debasish Mridha
“When you love someone, you love the whole person just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“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
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” – Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
“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
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I’m with you.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“If rain drops were kisses, I’d send you showers. If hugs were seas, I’d send you oceans. And if love was a person, I’d send you me.” — Emily Bronte
Short Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Poems for Valentine’s Day
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love chocolate more than you!”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue you might not know but I love you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, you’ve made all my dreams come true!”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue believe I’ll do anything to get next to you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue the stars shine bright but not as bright as you do.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, what I feel in my heart is wonderful and new.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue even if you get me mad I’ll still be in love with you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue my heart skips a beat when I’m laying next to you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, be my valentine? I love you!”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, be my one and only? I love you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, you live for me, and I live for you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I am so lucky to have you as my boo.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, the first time I saw you, my heart knew.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, have I mentioned I’m in love with you?”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, if I know what love is, it’s because of you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, ain’t never gonna love no one more than you!”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, every passing day, I am falling even more in love with you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, all the good things in life are better when I share them with you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, poetry is hard. Avocado.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I can’t rhyme, banana.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, you snore like a bear, but I’m still into you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, my love will always be so true!”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love flowers but not as much as you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I want to skip the small talk and say I love you.”
“Roses are red, Violets are blue, I wanted to write you a love poem but I only got that far…”
Short Valentine’s Day Sayings
“I love you from head to toe.”
You are the song that my heart loves to sing!”
“Love is so much more than just another four letter word.”
“Wherever you are, be happy. This is my wish for you.”
“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.”
“Long after the roses lose their color, I’ll continue loving you.”
“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.”
“I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.”
“You are my moon and stars. You are the best of the universe.”
“You and me — it doesn’t get any better than us.”
“You’re everything I always wished for, better than I dreamed of, all I’ll ever need.”
“My heart belongs to you, now and always.”
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
“If I had a dollar for every time you took my breath away, I’d be a billionaire.”
“You are the beat in my heart and the smile on my face.”
“And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.”
“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
Short Valentine’s Day Messages
“You’re my forever Valentine.”
“All I want for Valentine’s Day is you.”
“I’m head-over-heels for you boo.”
“Life is better when I have you by my side.”
“I may not be your first love, first kiss, first sight, or first date—but I want to be your last everything.”
“I’ve fallen in love many times, always with you.”
“You’re my happily-ever-after.”
“I wish I was kissing you instead of missing you!”
“You are my better half.”
“Know what I like about you? Everything!”
“Your love warms me like a blanket.”
“You hold the key to my heart.”
“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.”
Short Happy Valentine’s Day Sayings
Happy Valentine’s Day to the most special person in my life.
You’re my everything. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine, you take my breath away, every single day.
The more time we spend together, the more we fall in love with each other. Happy valentines!
Happy Valentine’s Day to the most beautiful woman I know.
Every love song is about you. Happy Valentine’s Day!
To another Valentine’s Day spent with the love of my life, and to many more.
I love you more than you’ll ever know. Happy Valentine’s Day!
I would choose you again and again. Happy Valentine’s Day.
Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life.
Short Valentine’s Day Captions
Valentine’s Day looks amazing on us!
February 15 is my Valentine’s Day—hello, cheap candy!
I like you even more than chocolate
Valentine, I’m yours
My Valentine is the cutest
I love you most
Hugs, kisses, and Valentine’s Day wishes
Hanging out on cloud 9 with my Valentine
Just a pair of Valentines in love
You are the thing in my everything.
I only have heart eyes for you
Love you today, tomorrow, forever
Together forever
I’m yours, no refunds
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I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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