100 Valentine’s Day card messages and quotes for everyone you love

Whether you’re writing to your partner, your best friend, your mom, or your kid, the sweetest Valentine’s Day messages are both personal and thoughtful. If you’re feeling stuck on what to say, try one of these sentimental wishes, romantic whispers, and even funny Valentine’s Day puns for every loved one on your list. Add your message or quote to our collection of Valentine’s Day cards—or a Valentine’s Day party invitation—for some major heart-emoji vibes this February 14th.

What should you write on a Valentine’s Day card?

Historically, Valentine’s Day has been reserved for couples. But that’s not the case anymore—now anyone can be your Valentine! 

From romantic love cards to funny Valentine’s Day cards, we have a Valentine’s greeting for everyone in your address book. But not every Valentine’s Day message is meant for every recipient. Remember these quick tips before you send out your Valentine’s Day cards this year. 

• For romantic partners: These messages can be short and sweet or long and passionate, depending on your relationship. Let your partner know how much you love them—whether it’s with pet names or more intimate language—and how happy you are to be their Valentine.

• For family: Not all Valentine’s Day cards are romantic, and cards to your family members fall into that category. Express your love to your mom, dad, siblings, grandparents, kids, or anyone else who makes you smile with an inside-family joke or an interesting quote that gets your platonic feelings across. 

• For friends: This is where all the corny jokes and Valentine’s puns are welcome. Whether you’re celebrating Galentine’s Day this year or not, send a Valentine’s Day message to your friends that lets them know how much you care about them—even if you all have dates as well.

Valentine’s Day card messages for him

Your husband or boyfriend may appreciate passionate, romantic love messages, or he may be a funny Valentine who loves a childish joke about body parts (no judgment!). No matter what his personality or sense of humor is, we have plenty of Valentine’s Day wishes and Valentine’s Day card ideas to choose from.

Add one of the romantic Valentine’s Day messages below to a Card like “Knight in Shining Armor” by Red Cap Cards.

1. I love you more than I loved you yesterday, and I know I’ll love you even more tomorrow.
2. You are my rock, my strength, my anchor.
3. You are truly my knight in shining armor.
4. Everything in my life is better with you in it.

5. Whenever you look at me, I still feel butterflies in my stomach.
6. You’re the apple of my eye.
7. Loving you is easy.
8. Everything’s different now that I’ve met you.

For all those funny Valentines, use a silly-but-sexy card like “Hot Stuff” and write something like:

9. You, me, Champagne, hot tub, Valentine’s night. Any questions?
10. I love you more than anything. Even coffee. Well, my second cup of coffee.
11. If you were a brownie on a plate of brownies, I’d pick you first… even if you weren’t an edge-piece brownie. (But you are.)
12. Others may have Valentines, but I’ve got a Valen-fine.
13. Let’s tuck the kids in early and end our Valentine’s Day right: binge-watching true-crime shows on Netflix.
14. If you were stung by a jellyfish, I’d pee on you.
15. You’re my lobster.

What should you write in a Valentine’s Day card for your wife or girlfriend?

“Two-Tone Lips” by kate spade new york for Paperless Post. “Ducking Amazing” by Paperless Post.

The perfect Valentine’s Day card for your wife or girlfriend depends on who she is and what she likes. Does that woman in your life love puns and cheesy jokes, or is she someone who takes Valentine’s Day to heart? Appeal to her interests with a card featuring something she enjoys, and tell her how much happiness she brings to your life.

Use a sweet Card like “Lovebirds” by kate spade new york for a romantic message like:

16. I’m so grateful that I found my love, my soulmate, and my best friend, all in the same person.
17. Every day that I spend with you is the best day of my life.
18. Just the thought of your smile gets me through the hardest moments of my day.
19. There’s no card long enough to list the many things I love about you.
20. Your love inspires me to be a better person every day.

For a Valentine who likes things a little “punnier,” try the “All That and Dim Sum” Card by Paperless Post with a message like:

21. You must be an eight-limbed sea creature because you octopi my heart.
22. This year, the only thing on my Valentine’s Day menu is M-EN-U.
23. Are you my appendix? Because I need to take you out tonight.
24. You’re hotter than a campfire—and I want some s’more.
25. I want to plant a garden with you. Let’s put our tulips together.
26. I love you with every beat of my heart.
27. Have I told you how much I love you?
28. My love for you grows each and every day.

Valentine’s Day card messages to your family

Whether you’re in a relationship or not this Valentine’s Day, February 14th is a nice time to drop a note to your family. Moms, dads, grandparents, siblings, niblings (your nieces and nephews), and kids don’t need roses or candies when a nice Valentine’s Day message will do.

For your parents, send the cute “Look at Those Balloons” Card from Mr. Boddington’s Studio with one of these messages:

29. Love you more than ever, Mom and Dad.
30. Thank you for everything you’ve done for me! Happy Valentine’s Day.
31. You taught me what love truly is, from the moment I was born. Thank you.
32. I hope you feel loved today, Mom/Dad, because you really are.
33. Your loving relationship is what I aspire to in my own life. Thank you for being such role models in love for me.

Choose something sweet, but not too sweet, for siblings, children, and other family members, such as the “Pinky Love” Card by Hello!Lucky with a funny yet touching message like:

34. Here’s the best Valentine’s Day gift you’ll ever receive: a note from me.
35. Happy Valentine’s Day to my partner-in-crime for all these years. (Let’s keep those secrets a little bit longer!)
36. Thinking of you makes me smile. And laugh. And then laugh some more, because—well, I don’t need to explain. Happy Valentine’s Day to the person who knows me best!
37. I don’t want to get all mushy this year just because it’s Valentine’s Day, so I’ll just say—Happy Valentine’s Day. (Also, I love you, but I’ll deny I said it if you ever mention it again.)
38. Happy Valentine’s Day to an amazing, attractive, hilarious person who happens to look, sound, and act a lot like me.
39. Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s do our once-a-year hug soon.
40. Happy Valentine’s Day to my first and best friend.

Valentine’s Day card messages for your friend

There are tons of options for non-romantic, funny Valentine’s cards for your friends—many of which involve puns. Whether it’s someone you haven’t seen in over a year or a roommate you watch “The Bachelor” with every week, let them know you appreciate their friendship with one of these loving messages this year.

Send the “Wildwood Galentine’s Day” Card by Rifle Paper Co. to your best girlfriends, along with one of these heartfelt messages:

41. You may not be my girlfriend/boyfriend, but you’ll always be my Valentine. Thanks for being with me during the good times, the bad times, and everything in between.
42. If I ever find someone I love as much as I love our friendship, I’ll marry them immediately. Happy Valentine’s Day!
43. Our talks and time together are the best part of my week. Happy V-Day, Valentine!
44. Valentine’s Day is all about love—and I love you to the moon and back! 
45. Relationships come and go, but our friendship is forever. Thanks for being my friend, Valentine.

If your BFF has your heart (and no one else does), send the “Doily Delight” Card with a message like:

46. Wine + chocolates + romcoms + you + me = best Valentine’s Day ever.
47. How could I ever find a Valentine as awesome as you?
48. Won’t you be my Galentine? 
49. Let’s get Valentine’s cocktails and spill the tea about our exes.
50. Who needs dates when we’ve got each other? (And wine!)

Professional Valentine’s Day card messages

While you may not consider your colleagues your Valentines, it’s still nice to send them a thoughtful employee appreciation note.

For more cordial greetings, send the “Retro Valentine’s Day” Card by Paperless Post and write:

51. Happy Valentine’s Day! I love working with team members like you.
52. I hope your Valentine’s Day is full of love and joy.
53. Wishing you a wonderful Valentine’s Day with loved ones!
54. Thanks for making work more fun this year! Happy Valentine’s Day.
55. You’ve got a big heart for what you do, and it shows!

If you and your coworkers are on friendlier terms, consider the “Shrimply the Best” Card by Hello!Lucky with a message like:

56. This Valentine’s Day, I wish you all the best in life, like sick days where no one asks what you were doing with all that time off.
57. I hope your Valentine’s Day is sweet! (And I also hope there are treats in the breakroom.)
58. This Valentine’s Day, we’ve all got a hot date—with a project deadline. Hope the rest of your Valentine’s Day is more enjoyable!
59. I love coming to work and seeing you! Wait, remove the “coming to work and” part.
60. Roses are red, violets are blue. I wish we weren’t working on Valentine’s Day—how about you?

The best Valentine’s Day quotes

Another Valentine’s message idea that works for any recipient is to customize your digital greeting card by adding Valentine’s Day quotes that make your reader swoon. Here are some of our favorite romantic Valentine’s Day quotes for him and her as well as non-romantic Valentine’s Day quotes from poetry, novels, and books. 

61. “If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.” – Winnie the Pooh
62. “Love is patient, love is kind … It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
63. “I love you through and through, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, too.” – Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak
64. “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
65. “One is loved because one is loved. There is no reason for loving.” – Paulo Coelho
66. “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” – Virginia Woolf
67. “Whatever our souls are made of… his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
68. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Margaret Mitchell
70. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde
71. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy
72. “There are all types of love in this world and never the same love twice.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. “You’ve got a lovely everything.” – Ernest Hemingway
74. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
75. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami
76. “I’m yours forever—forever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.” – Henry James
77. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
78. “Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.” – Samuel Lover
79. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
80. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.” – Robert Munsch
81. “I’ll eat you up I love you so.” – Maurice Sendak
82. “I could drink a case of you, darling.” – Joni Mitchell
83. “Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.” – The Beatles
84. “If all I got is your hand in my hand, baby I could die a happy man.” – Thomas Rhett
85. ​​”At every table, I’ll save you a seat.” – Taylor Swift
86. “The spaces between your fingers are right where mine fit perfectly.” – Owl City
87. “Take my hand, take my whole life too.” – Elvis Presley
88. “Home is wherever I’m with you.” – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
89. “God only knows what I’d be without you.” – The Beach Boys
90. “I married for love, but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to help me find my glasses cannot be ignored.” – Cameron Esposito
91. “I’ve never been a fan of change, but I’d follow you to any place.” – One Direction
92. “I choo-choo-choose you.” – Ralph Wiggum
93. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I love and admire you.” – Jane Austen
94. “You’re just like a dream.” – The Cure
95. “I’ve been thinking it’s a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned.” – The Postal Service
96. “You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.” – Charles Dickens
97. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”  – William Shakespeare
98. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”  – Emily Brontë
99. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stoker
100. “You’re just too good to be true. Can’t take my eyes off of you.” – Frankie Valli

Spread the love with Paperless Post

Sending a customizable Valentine’s Day Card from Paperless Post via email or text is a simple way to let your loved ones know you’re thinking of them. Schedule your Valentine’s Day online cards to send on February 14th using our app or website, so you can check another holiday off your list (and ensure you don’t miss the big day). You can even add a cute Valentine’s Day stamp in the shape of a heart or kiss to your card’s envelope for an extra thoughtful touch.

And by the way: once you’ve chosen a romantic message or funny Valentine’s Day quote for your card, it’s time to get those Valentine’s Day plans ready with our helpful guide to Valentine’s Day ideas. Lots of love!

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