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Short Valentine’s Day Quotes for that Romantic Aesthetic

Love is in the air on Valentine’s Day and you may be looking for the perfect quote to show how you feel, so we have gathered all the best short Valentine’s Day quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short Valentine’s Day sayings, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Short Happy Valentine's Day Quotes

Short Valentine’s Day Quotes

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“A valentine warms the heart.” — Kriss Stewart

“Today is Valentine’s Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” — Jay Leno

Short Quotes About Valentine’s Day and Love

And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert Heinlein

Short Happy Valentine's Day Quotes

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” — Nikki Giovanni

Long after the roses lose their color, I’ll continue loving you.

Hugs, kisses, and Valentine’s Day wishes

“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

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

“To me, you are perfect.” — Mark, Love Actually

Roses are red, Violets are blue even if you get me mad I’ll still be in love with you.

Love is so much more than just another four letter word.

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” — Corinthians 13:4-8

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“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E. E. Cummings

“To be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart

 “Cause all of me loves all of you.” — John Legend

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

“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

Roses are red, Violets are blue, what I feel in my heart is wonderful and new.

“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it’s still I love you.” — Zelda Fitzgerald

“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery

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“Take me to your heart. For it’s there that I belong. And will never part.” — Elvis Presley

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

Roses are red, Violets are blue, my love will always be so true!

“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.” — Sixteen Candles

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

You are the thing in my everything.

“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

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana

I wish I was kissing you instead of missing you!

“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

“In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.” — Pretty Woman

“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

Valentine, I’m yours

“You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale.” — Hussein Nishah

Red hearts and short Valentines quotes by Kate Summers

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” — John Lennon

“Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

I like you even more than chocolate

“Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery

“And suddenly all the love songs were about you.” — Anonymous

“I love you more than I hate everything else.” – Rainbow Rowell

“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” — Bil Keane

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Ghandi

Roses are red, Violets are blue, you live for me, and I live for you.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, have I mentioned I’m in love with you?

“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.” — Tim Allen

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” — Charles Schulz

If I had a dollar for every time you took my breath away, I’d be a billionaire.

“Everything I do, I do it for you.” — Bryan Adams

To another Valentine’s Day spent with the love of my life, and to many more.

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.” — Douglas McGrath

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“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran

“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.” — Reese Witherspoon

“On this Valentine’s Day my hope and wish is that our love will be forever.” — Catherine Pulsifer

Roses are red, Violets are blue, if I know what love is, it’s because of you.

“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love chocolate more than you!

“So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.” — King Jaffe Joffer

“I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda

 “The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day.” – Tom Robbins

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I can’t rhyme, banana.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

“I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken

Roses are red, Violets are blue, ain’t never gonna love no one more than you!

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Nicholas Sparks

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” — Arrigo Boito

Hearts on background with short Valentine's quotes by Anthony T. Hincks

“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” – Melanie Griffith

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent van Gogh

“I love our story. Sure it’s messy, but it’s the story that got us here.” — How I Met Your Mother

“I love you bigger than the world and sky.” — Marty Klazmer

Hanging out on cloud 9 with my Valentine

 “Valentine’s Day is a love-note to the rest of the year.” — Jo Lightfoot

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.” — George Burns

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

“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.”

“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.” — The Wedding Date

Heart outlines with short Valentine's Day quotes by Ben Folds

I love you more than you’ll ever know. Happy Valentine’s Day!

“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.” – Debasish Mridha

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

You’re my everything. Happy Valentine’s Day!

“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“The most important day of the year to say ‘I love you’ is everyday, not just on Valentine’s Day.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” — Jane Austen

I only have heart eyes for you

“All you need is love.” – Paul McCartney

“Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help falling in love with you.” — Elvis Presley

Roses are red, Violets are blue, be my one and only? I love you.

“February days are a marketing gimmick, love happens every day.” – Randeep Hooda

You’re everything I always wished for, better than I dreamed of, all I’ll ever need.

I’ve fallen in love many times, always with you.

Red hearts with short Valentine's day messages

Roses are red, Violets are blue, you’ve made all my dreams come true!

“That’s one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine’s Day is just another day.” — Jawed Karim

Roses are red, Violets are blue believe I’ll do anything to get next to you.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I want to skip the small talk and say I love you.

Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life.

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” – George Sand

My Valentine is the cutest

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal

“In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

You are my moon and stars. You are the best of the universe.

“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.” — H. L. Mencken

I’m head-over-heels for you boo.

Roses are red, Violets are blue my heart skips a beat when I’m laying next to you.

“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

“I just want to be friends. Plus a little extra. Also, I love you.” — Dwight Schrute

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theordore Roethke

Pink rose with short Valentine's day captions

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The future for me is already a thing of the past. You were my first love and you will be my last.” — Bob Dylan

“A kiss makes the heart young again.” — Rupert Brooke

You and me — it doesn’t get any better than us.

“Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.” — Trent Shelton

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love flowers but not as much as you.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, poetry is hard. Avocado.

“The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.” — Dolly Parton

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz

“Love is our true destiny.” — Thomas Merton

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Cute Short Quotes to Say Happy Valentine’s Day

“I want you for always…days, years, eternities.” — Kriss Stewart Franz Schubert

February 15 is my Valentine’s Day—hello, cheap candy!

I love you most

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” — Eva Gabor

“Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge

Three hearts with happy short quotes for Valentine's day

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air.” – Rae Carson

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

“All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us.” — Penny Widmore, Lost

“The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.”  — This Is Us

“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

The more time we spend together, the more we fall in love with each other. Happy valentines!

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” — Maya Angelou

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ” – Open-365

“Love can be defined with one word. You.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“Never sign a Valentine with your own name.” — Charles Dickens

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

I’m yours, no refunds

“Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.” — Phyllis Schlafly

Happy Valentine’s Day to the most special person in my life.

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“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” – William Goldman

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston

I may not be your first love, first kiss, first sight, or first date—but I want to be your last everything.

“Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.” — Lewis Black

“You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” — Albert Einstein.

“Love is a grave mental illness.” — Plato

Roses are red, Violets are blue, every passing day, I am falling even more in love with you.

“You had me at hello.” — Jerry Maguire

“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery

You are the song that my heart loves to sing!

“My heart is and always will be yours.” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” — Ann Landers

“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” — Lucille Ball

Roses are red, Violets are blue you might not know but I love you.

Red rose and short quotes about Valentine's day and love

Valentine, you take my breath away, every single day.

“All you need is love.” — The Beatles

Roses are red, Violets are blue, the first time I saw you, my heart knew.

“Love was made for me and you.” — Nat King Cole

“I love you right up to the moon — and back.” — Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You

“And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while.” — Bruno Mars

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love” — Albert Einstein

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” — Robert Browning

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

I would choose you again and again. Happy Valentine’s Day.

Roses are red, Violets are blue the stars shine bright but not as bright as you do.

“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

Roses are red, Violets are blue, you snore like a bear, but I’m still into you.

“I knew I loved you before I met you. I have been waiting all my life.” — Savage Garden

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“As you wish.” — Wesley, The Princess Bride

All I want for Valentine’s Day is you.

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

Every love song is about you. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Your love warms me like a blanket.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I am so lucky to have you as my boo.

Short Valentine’s Day Captions

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.” – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

Wherever you are, be happy. This is my wish for you.

“Love is blind—marriage is the eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason

You hold the key to my heart.

 “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi

“I do know some things. For example, I know I love you. I know you love me.” – Game of Thrones

“Real love is built the old-fashioned way—through hard work.” — Danny Silk

“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” – Jim Gaffigan

“If love is the answer, then could you rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin

Pink hearts and short funny valentine quotes

“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

“Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine

“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

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I’m with you.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a a person. And we are finally home.” — Stephanie Perkins

“When life leaves us blind, love leaves us kind.” — Linkin Park, “The Messenger”

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami

I love you from head to toe.

You are my better half.

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë

Roses are red, Violets are blue, be my valentine? I love you!

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

“In love there are two things– bodies and words.” – Joyce Carol Oates

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“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

Know what I like about you? Everything!

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac

Love you today, tomorrow, forever

I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Leo Christopher

“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

“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

“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“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

You’re my forever Valentine.

“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” — John Lennon

Life is better when I have you by my side.

“I didn’t fall for you, you tripped me!” — Jenny Han

“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!” — Thomas Hood

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“I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans

You are the beat in my heart and the smile on my face.

“Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.” – Charmaine J. Forde

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” – Lauren Oliver

Just a pair of Valentines in love

“Valentine’s Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.” ― M.F.

You’re my happily-ever-after.

“You are, and always have been, my dream.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“If you wanna be my lover, you’ve got to get with my friends.” — Spice Girls

Moonzajer

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis

“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.” — Ben Folds

“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 fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.” — The Fault in Our Stars

Slightly Longer Valentines Quotes

“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.” — Samuel Lover

Person on beach with I love you quotes for wife by Neruda

Roses are red, Violets are blue, all the good things in life are better when I share them with you.

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde

“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

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscot

Happy Valentine’s Day to the most beautiful woman I know.

“I will love you my whole life. You and no other.” — Braveheart

Together forever

Short Quotes About February: The Month of Love

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Thoreau

“February is short and very sweet.” – Charmaine J Forde

“In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.” – Patience Strong

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey

My heart belongs to you, now and always.

Valentine’s Day looks amazing on us!

Short Funny Valentine Quotes

“There are never enough I Love You’s.” — Lenny Bruce

“Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” — Cathy Carlyle

“February always seem to give more joy than other months. Maybe because it’s the month of love.” – Unknown

“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” — Loretta Young

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I wanted to write you a love poem but I only got that far…

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato

So that is it for our list of Short Valentine’s Day Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

If you like these, you might also like our other lists of Winter Sayings, Roses are Red Poems, Happy New Year Wishes for Friends and Family and Happy Easter Letter Board Quotes.

Short Happy Valentine's Day Quotes

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Laynni Locke

Laynni Locke

Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.

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