Be Careful With Valentine's Day Quotes
You know how there is such a thing as being politically correct? Well, there are such days in the year where you have to be romantically correct IF you are in a relationship. If you not in a relationship, then you are left off the hook for being romantically correct. Birthdays, anniversaries and Valentine's Day are those days where couples have to be romantically correct. Any Valentine's Day quotes from your mouth will come back to haunt you throughout the entire length of the relationship.
Romantically Correct Things To Say
You are best not saying anything, if you can help it, but just smile and just gaze adoringly at your partner. If that seems a bit awkward, of if your partner says something incredibly annoying like, "What are you thinking, honey?" then you better say the proper Valentine's Day quotes.
It doesn't really matter what comes out of your mouth or who wrote it, just so that it sounds romantic and twee and smooth. If you know the lyrics to your partner's favorite love song, this will serve great for your trove of Valentine's Day quotes. If you wee an English major, then when all else fails, fall back on Shakespeare for killer Valentine's Day quotes like "If music be the food of love, play on," from Twelfth Night.
Romantically Incorrect Things To Say
On this most sappy of days full of high ritual and expectations to be fulfilled no matter what the cost, you are best to stay away from funny or sarcastic Valentine's Day quotes like "Valentine's Day stinks." (Anonymous). For some reason, irony does not work on Valentine's Day, even if irony is understood and appreciated on the other 364 days of the year.
If you use these romantically incorrect Valentine's Day quotes, you will hear about it every day for the rest of however long your relationship is going to last. Your partner will tell complete strangers on the street, "Did you know what this moron said to me on Valentine's Day?!"
However, when you are finally single again and Valentine's Day rolls around, you can freely break out all of the romantically incorrect Valentine's Day quotes you like. You can laugh at all of the poor sods who still have to go through those excruciating Valentine's Day rituals. And you get to eat all of the chocolate you buy. Plato arguably put it best when he said, "Love is a grave mental disease."
