Happy Valentine’s Day 2020: Love is an ephemeral feeling that binds two souls for life. The subject of innumerable novels, stories, poems and some great cinema (Notting Hill, PS I Love You, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), there have been countless descriptions of the four-lettered words over the years.
Love is an ephemeral feeling that binds two souls for life. The subject of innumerable novels, stories, poems and some great cinema (Notting Hill, PS I Love You, Breakfast at Tiffany’s), there have been countless descriptions of the four-lettered words over the years. From the funny, to the passionate and often melancholy, love has been immortalised in quotes and verses for a long time.
On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, here’s looking at a few one-lines dedicated to the day of love.
1. Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house – American comedian Groucho Marx
2. I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid – Poet Dorothy Parker
3. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories – John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
4. Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better – William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night
5. 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
6. Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all – Lord Tennyson
7. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are – Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist
8. It’s better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week – Laurence J Peter
9. Absence: that common cure of love – Miguel De Cervantes
10. I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me – American comedian Henny Youngman
11. You can always gain by giving love – Reese Witherspoon
12. Love recognizes no barriers – Maya Angelou
13. You can’t blame gravity for falling in love – Albert Einstein
14. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other – Aubrey Hepburn
15. A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love – Friedrich Nietzsche
Prasanta Patnaik