Happy Valentine's Day 2024 quotes: 15 classic quotes on love by famous authors

We read the words of great thinkers and writers when we look inspiration for anything. And love isn’t any different. Thankfully, we have our beloved authors and poets to help us express the beautiful and varied emotions of love through their words. Be it, William Shakespeare, the famous bard of the Elizabethan Age or someone from the modern age like Nicholas Sparks, we always have someone to inspire us with their words. So, here are some classic quotes on love by famous authors to wish our partners on Valentine’s Day.
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”—By George Eliot
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” —By Henry Miller

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” —By Oscar Wilde
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“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.” —By Stephen King in Wizard and Glass
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” —By J. D. Salinger

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” —By E. E. Cummings
“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.” —By Ray Bradbury
"It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." —By W. M. Thackeray
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." —By Victor Hugo

"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." —
By John Lennon
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” —By Nicholas Sparks
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” .” —By Orson Welles
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” —By James Baldwin

“The heart was made to be broken.” —By Oscar Wilde
"The course of true love never did run smooth.” —By William SHakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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