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We've compiled a few interesting romantic quotes to celebrate V-Day -- enjoy.
Some are tongue in cheek and some will have you biting your tongue! Here are a few great one-liners to give you something to laugh (or cry!) about on February 14!
'True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.'
-- Erich Segal
Illustrations: Uttam Ghosh
'We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.'
-- Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
'Don't say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it.'
-- Anonymous
'Love is giving someone the power to destroy you...but trusting them not to.'
-- Unknown
'Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.'
-- Lisa Brooks
'Men always want to be a woman's first love -- what (women) like is to be a man's last romance.'
-- Oscar Wilde
'An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.'
-- Agatha Christie
'A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.'
-- Brendan Francis
'You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.'
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
'When you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.'
-- From When Harry Met Sally
'Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.'
-- Mark Twain
'Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.'
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
'Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.'
-- Mirabeau
'Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.'
-- Mae West
'Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.'
-- Henry Ward Beecher
'Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.'
-- Franklin P. Jones
'You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.'
-- Dr Wayne W Dyer
'I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.'
-- Roy Croft
'Love is a fire: But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.'
-- Joan Crawford
'Love is when you sit on the Internet all day and look for love quotes.'
-- Unknown
'They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.'
-- William Shakespeare