Dictionaries:

love:

1. A deep feeling of affection , attachment and solicitude for another person. In his humorous dictionary The Penthouse Sexicon (1968), Frederic Mullally defined LOVE: ' What makes the world go round .' versus LUST: ' What makes the heels go round .'
ETYMOLOGY: From the Old English lufr, meaning to be fond-of , and from leof meaning dear. The current spelling l-o-v-e arose sometime before the 12 th century; it applied to the bond between a mother and child.
SYNONYMS: See love [SYN] for synonyms.

2. To like or enjoy enthusiastically.

3. To like or desire ; to take pleasure in; to hold-dear .

4. The object of affection ; a person much loved; a loved-one ; a sweetheart . See love [SYN] for synonyms.

5. A casual term of address or endearment, especially in England, to a friend or stranger, especially to a woman .
SYNONYMS: luv ; luvvy .

6. To fondle amorously; to caress ; to pet .

7. Sexual intercourse . See copulation for synonyms.

8. Love: Cupid or Eros , the god-of-love .

9. To love / to make-love , to court, to woo .
QUOTES:

(1) Tennyson: ' Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all .'

(2) Oscar Wilde: ' Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do-it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word / The coward does it with a kiss / The brave man with a sword! '

(3) Alfred Douglas: ' I am the Love that dare not speak its name .' Last line of his poem: Two Loves .

(4) Dorothy Parker: ' By the time you swear youre his / Shivering and sighing / And he vows his passion is / Infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: / One of you is lying .'

(5) Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ' Early love , chemically based, is when you love the way the other person makes you feel. It is self-centered, feel-good love . Mature love , which comes later in a relationship , is love for whoever a person is. It is other-centered .'

(6) Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): ' Love. Soft stuff! '

(7) Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to the Soviet enjoy Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) in Ninotchka (1939):

' Love isn't so simple, Ninotchka. Ninotchka, why do doves bill and coo? Why do snails, the coldest of all creatures, circle interminably around each other? Why do moths fly hundred of miles to find their mates? Why do flowers slowly open their petals? Oh, Ninotchka, Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight symptom of the divine passion . A general warmth, a strange heaviness in your limbs, a burning of the lips that isn't thirst but something a thousand times more tantalizing, more exalting than thirst .'

(8) Harry Anders (Michael Caine) and Stacey Mensdorf (Sean Young) in Blue Ice (1992):
-- Harry: ' I knew a girl like you once and I felt the same way about her as I feel about you. I didn't know whether to love her or hate her .'
-- Stacey: ' So what did you do? '
-- Harry: ' A little of both .'

(9) Kevin (Michael Keaton) and Julia (Geena Davis) in Speechless (1994):
-- Kevin: ' Shall we speak the unspoken language of love? '
-- Julia: ' You mean the kind only dogs can hear? '
-- Kevin: ' Yes, the very same .' They jump under the covers and start woof-woofing and...

(10) Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont) and Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx) in Cocoanuts (1929):
-- Mrs. Potter: ' I don't think you'd love me if I were poor .'
-- Mr. Hammer: ' I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut .'

(11) Groucho (Groucho Marx) in Monkey Business (1931): ' Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo .' Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), Parisian cab driver, to fortune hunter Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) in Midnight (1939): ' When you're poor love flies out the window .'

(12) Peachum (Fritz Rasp), the king of beggars, to his daughter Polly (Carola Meher) who secretly married Mack the Knife (Rudolph Forster) in The Threepenny Penny Opera (1931):
-- Peachum: ' You'll get a divorce! '
-- Polly: ' But I love him! How can I get a divorce? '
-- Peachum: ' I'll tan your behind! '
-- Polly: ' It won't do any good. Love is greater that a tanned behind .'

(13) Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and Mata Hari (Greta Garbo) in Mata Hari (1932):
-- Lt. Alexis: ' I love you as one adores sacred things .'
-- Mata Hari: ' What sacred things? '
-- Lt. Alexis: ' God, country , honor, you .'
-- Mata Hari: ' I come last? '
-- Lt. Alexis: ' No, you come first , before anything .'

(14) Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo) to Armand Duval (Robert Taylor) in Camille (1936): ' I've loved you as much as I could love . If that wasn't enough I'm not to blame. We don't make our own hearts .'

(15) Tillie Seltzer (Carol Burnett) and husband Pete (Walter Matthau) in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972):
-- Tillie: ' When I think of all the times I was so irritated with you yet, right now, I don't think I ever loved you more .'
-- Pete: ' Well, love without irritation is just lust .'

(16) Lola (Marlene Dietrich) answering in German to a student's declaration of love made in English in The Blue Angel (1930):
-- Student: ' I love you .'
-- Lola: ' Stop that English drivel .'

(17) Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): ' I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we're alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. (...) Scarlett! Look at me. I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman . (...) Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once .'

(18) Soviet envoy Lena Yakushova 'Ninotchka' (Greta Garbo) to French Count Leon Bressart (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939): ' Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary, biological, or shall we say chemical, process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it .'

(19) Wayne (Dick Foran) and Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) in My Little Chickadee (1940):
-- Wayne: ' Spring is the time for-love .'
-- Belle: ' What's the matter with the rest of the year? '

(19) Doc Holiday (Walter Huston) to Rio MacDonald (Jane Russell) after Billy the Kid tied her with wet rawhide and left her in the sun to die in The Outlaw (1943): 'The crazier a man is about a woman , the crazier he thinks and the crazier he does .'

(20) Vinny Day (Irene Dunne) about her husband Clare (William Powell) in Life with Father (1947): ' You know , I don't believe Clare has come-out and told me he loves me since we been married . Of course I know he does because I keep reminding him of it . You have to keep reminding them, Cora .'

(21) George, Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) to Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) in The Three Musketeers (1948): ' I understand nothing except that I love you, that the earth is small and that-there is no room on it for you and me apart .'

(22) Athos (Van Heflin) to Lady de Winter (Lana Turner) in The Three Musketeers (1948) ' I loved you as I loved war and drunkenness .'

(23) Debra (Jeanne Crain) and Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) in People Will Talk (1951):
-- Debra: ' I'm in-love-with you .'
-- Noah: ' What makes you think so? '
-- Debra: ' I can't give you symptoms. It's love not measles .'

(24) Sung by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): ' When love goes wrong, nothing goes right. Bees won't buzz , fish won't bite , clock won't strike, a match won't light .'

(25) Anna (Ingrid Bergman) in Indiscreet (1958): ' When love is right, everything is right .'

(26) The cynical Squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to blacksmith Plog (Ake Fridell) who is looking for his unfaithfull wife in The Seventh Seal (1957): ' Haven't you learned by now that love is just another word for lust? '

(27) Diane (Joan Collins) and Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) in The Road to Hong Kong (1962):
-- Diana: ' You know , Chester, you're the sort of man that I could love .'
-- Chester: ' Could you? '
-- Diana: ' Oh yes , I could, Chester. I could love you body and soul .'
-- Chester: ' They're available , in that order .'

(28) Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) walking in the park with Louise (Janet Margolin) in Take the Money and Run (1969): ' All I know is my heart was really pounding and I felt a funny tingling all over. I don't know . I was either in-love or I had smallpox .'

(29) Harold (Bud Cort) and Maude (Ruth Gordon) who is dying in Harold and Maude (1972):
-- Harold: ' I love you! '
-- Maud: ' Oh Harold! That's wonderful! Go and love some more .'

(30) Sancho Panza (James Coco) to Aldonza (Sophia Loren) speaking of Don Quichote in Man of La Mancha (1972): ' They say one mad man makes in hundred and love makes in thousand .'

(31) Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): 'Love is a miracle. It's like a birthmark, you can't hide it .

(32) Sonja (Diane Keaton) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975):
-- Sonja: ' Sex without love is an empty experience .'
-- Boris : ' Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best .'

(33) Sonja (Diane Keaton) to young Natasha (Jessica Harper) in Love and Death (1975): ' Natasha, to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love . But then one suffers from not loving . Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love . To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love , or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down .'

(34) Annie (Diane Keaton) and Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977):
-- Annie: ' Do you love me? '
-- Alvy: ' Love is too weak a word... I luuurv you. I lOOOve you. I luff you, two f's .'

(35) Stella (Marilyn Sokol) to Gloria (Goldie Hawn) in Foul Play (1978): 'If they say "I like you" it's not so bad . It's when they say "I love you" that's when you gotta watch out .'

(36) Merlin (Nicol Williamson) to King Arthur (Nigel Terry) in Excalibur (1981): 'This lunacy called love , this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king .'

(37) Andrew (Woody Allen) in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982): ' Sex alleviates tension and love causes it .'

(38) Charley (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): ' That ain't love . In-love is temporary. Then you move on to the next in-love. Everybody is always falling in and out of love .'

(39) Charley Partana (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): ' I look at you, I see what I want to see . That's what love is .'

(40) Dotty Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) voice over intro of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994): ' Into love and out again. Thus I went and thus I go .'

(41) Beth (Kim Greist) reading the ' cryptic' last lines of Larry's (Billy Crystal) novel in Throw Momma Off the Train (1987); ' Hate makes you impotent . Love makes you crazy. Somewhere in-between , you can survive .'

(42) Charlie (Martin Sheen) in Da (1988): 'It was a long time before I realised that love upside down is love for all that .'

(43) Nathalie De Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) in The Moderns (1988): ' Don't confuse sex and love , Mr. Hart. It will spoil both of 'em for you .'

(44) John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): ' Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for .'

(45) Harris K . Telemacher (Steve Martin) in L.A. Story (1991): ' Why is it that we don't always recognise the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends? '

(46) Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) in Nothing but Trouble (1991): ' When it comes to love , there's no accounting for taste .'

(47) Will (Jack Nicholson) to Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer) in Wolf (1994): ' I want to tell you something. I've never loved anybody this way . I never looked at a woman and thought: if civilization fails, if the world ends, I'll still understand what God meant if I am with her .'

(48) Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): ' You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself .'

(49) Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990): ' Please, God! Don't let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things .'

(50) Georges Duroy/Bel Ami (George Sanders) in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947): ' Love is a subject which always interests women perhaps because in discussing it one passes so readily from the general to the particular .'

(51) Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): ' Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous .'

(52) Kevin (Keanu Reeves) and John/Satan (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1998):
-- Kevin: ' What about love? '
-- John: ' Overrated. Biochemically, no different than eating large quantities of chocolate .'

(53) The Oracle to Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix (1999): ' Being the one is just like being in-love . No one can tell you you're in-love . You just know it , through and through, balls to bones .'

(54) Joan (Angelina Jolie) in Playing by Heart (1999): ' Talking about love is like dancing about architecture .'

(55) Anonymous: ' Love is a phwoarrr letter word .'

(56) William Shakespeare: ' Love is merely a madness .'

(57) Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) to Laura Alden (Michelle Pfeiffer) in Wolf (1994): ' I want to tell you something. I've never loved anybody this way . I never looked at a woman and thought: if civilization fails, if the world ends, I'll still understand what God meant if I am with her .'

(58) Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934):
-- Sally : ' Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you .'
-- Philip: ' Yes, that's usually the case . There's usually one who loves and one who is loved .'
-- Sally : ' It's always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him .'

(59) Pat Jamieson (Spencer Tracy) speaking about love-in Without Love (1945): ' Never no more. I don't want anymore of that sickness .'

(60) Philip Marlow (Robert Montgomery) to Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) in Lady in the Lake (1946): ' You got that 'I'm scared but it's wonderful' feeling? '

(61) Emily (Susan Sarandon) and Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) in The Buddy System (1984):
-- Emily: ' Something is missing when you're not in-love .'
-- Joe: ' Yeah, fear and desperation .'

(62) Sam Wheat's (Patrick Swayze) farewell words to Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) before ascending into the light in Ghost (1990): ' It's amazing, Molly! The love inside, you take-it with you .'

(63) Father MacLean (Tom Skerritt) in a sermon in A River Runs Through It (1993): ' We can love completely without complete understanding .'

(64) Monty Woolley (as himself) to Linda Porter (Alexis Smith) in Night and Day (1946): ' Advice to the lovelorn isn't quite my department, Linda. Too dangerous. Love can be a delight, a dilemma, a disease or a disaster .'

(65) Leonard Cummings (Peter Frechette) to his younger brother Charles (Jon Cryer) in No Small Affair (1984): ' Sex has nothing to do with love . Sex washes off .'

(66) Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo) to her friend Cornelius Van Tayl (Lewis Stone) in Romance (1930): ' What is love? It's made of kisses in the dark , of hot breath on the face , of hearts that beat with terribly strong blows. Love is just a beast that you feed all through the night and when the morning comes, love dies .' And later: ' To me love is only a little warmth in all this cold , just a little light in all this darkness, one little minute to lie still in the beloved's arms, one little minute to forget and that's all .'

(67) Sheila Kingston's (Rosie O'Donnell) voice over commentary at the end of Exit to Eden (1994): ' So, what did I learn from this case? No matter what your sexual-preference is true-love is still the ultimate fantasy .'

(68) Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): ' Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous .'

(69) Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in-love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that when we fall in-love we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us so that love contains in it the contradiction: the attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past .'

(70) Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is we, with our capacity to love , who give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even find joy from simple things like their family , their work , and from the hope that future generations might understand more .'

(71) Connie (Kelly Lynch) to Joe Casella (William Baldwin) in Three of Hearts (1993): ' Love is like some fucking force of nature. You can't trick it ... you sure can't control it . That's the great part, that's the ride . Enjoy it .'

(72) Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): ' You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself .'

(73) Marlene Dietrich, as Erica Von Schluetow, to Jean Arthur as Phoebe Frost in A Foreign Affair (1948): ' You know this game of love , if you want to take the advice of an old gambler, some poeple are lucky at-it , some people are jinx; you shouldn't even sit down at the table .'


Synonyms: abnormal affection, abnormality, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, adulation, affaire d'amour affection, affinity, agape, allegiance, amative, amativeness, amatory, amiable, amity, Amor, amor-vincit-omnia, amorism, amorous, amorousness, amour, amourette, anaclitic, appreciate, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, beloved, benevolence, bewitchment, blind-love, bliss, blissfully in love, brotherly-love, calf-love, canonize, caprice, care, carry-off-one's-feet, cause-of-causes, chains of love, charity, cherish, cherishing, choose between love and duty, Christian love, close friendship, closeness, compatibility, con-amore, concern, concord, conjugal love, constancy, cordial friendship, coup-de-foudre, course of love, course of true love, courteous act, courtly love, courtship, crush, cupboard-love, Cupids-cramp, Cupid's-sting, dalliance, darling, dawn of love, dead to love, dear, dearness, deep love, deify, delight, delight in, desire, devotedness, devotion, disinterestedness, divineness, dote (on / upon), ecstasy, emotion, enamor(ed), enchantment, endearment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, Eros, eroticism, erotomania, esteem, eternal-wound,-the, exalt, excitable state, fall-for, fall in love, fancy, fascination, fast friendship, fatherhood, favor, fealty, feeling, fellow feeling, fervor, fidelity, fire of love, firm attachment, first love, flame, flames of love, fling, flirtation, fondness, friendship, full of love, gaga, gallantry, glorify, good graces, goodness of nature, goodness and mercy, grace, grand-passion,-the, hankering, happily in love, heart-free, heart throbs, heart's-desire, hero-worship, hold high, hold-dear, idolatry, idolize, in-love, inclination, infatuation, intimacy, involvement, jealousy, kind regards, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, labor of love, libido, light-of-one's-life, like / likes, liking, longing, love-affair, love-at-first-sight, love-life, love-hate, loved-one, love thy neighbor, lover, lovesickness, loving, loving-kindness, loyal devotion, loyalty, lust, luv, mad-pash, magic of love, maternal affection, maternal instinct, milk of human kindness, miseries,-the, moral sensibility, mother-love, mutual affection, mutual love, narcissism, natural affection, odi et amo, old old story, the, parental affection, partiality, passion, passionate friendship, paternal affection, penchant, perpetual-emotion, piety, Platonic-love, popularity, possessive love, possessiveness, power of love, predilection, prefer, preference, prisoner of love, prize, proclivity, propensity, protective love, protectiveness, puppy-love, put on a pedestal, rapt, rapture, real thing, regard, regards, relish, remembrances, respect, respects, revere, reverence, romantic love, roses-and-raptures, secret-sorrow, sentiment, sentimental attachment, sentimentality, sisterly love, snares of love, the, soft-spot, softening-of-the-hearters, solicitude, something between them, sorcery, soul mate, spoony, strong liking, susceptibility, sweep-off-one's-feet, sweetheart, sympathy, taste, tendency, tender feelings, tender passion, tenderness, terms of courtesy, tenth-word-in-a-telegram, that-certain-gleam-in-one's-eyes, that-funny-feeling, think-the-world-of, thrive with, token of love, transport, transports of love, treasure, true-love, two hearts that beat as one, understanding, uxoriousness, valentine, value, venerate, warm friendship, warm-heartedness, warmth of heart, win-over, wonder, woo-poo, worship, worship from afar, yearning, young love, zeal

See Also: 6-2-9, 6-to-9, a soft spot for, a2m, Abélard, Abigail, ablaze, ache for, acousticophilia, act, adamite, adore, adulate, adventure, affair of love, affair of the heart, affaire d'amour, affaire de coeur, affection, affenliebe, aflutter over, Afrodite, agape, agapemone, agapism, ailurophile, aischrolatreia, algolagnia, all aflutter over, all aquiver over, all for, all fussed up, all hot and bothered, all shaky-shivery, alloeroticism, aloha, Amantium irae, amoris integratio est, Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur, amative, amatorial, amatory, amatory pleasures, ambivalence, amor, amor lesbicus, amor sui, Amor vincit omnia, amoretto, amorist, amorous, amorous rites, amour, amour fou, amour propre, amour socratique, amourette, amphiphilia, amphisexual, anal beads, anal coitus, anal intercourse, anal-genital intercourse, anaphrodisia, anaphroditic, androphilia, Angus, animal sex, anogenital intercourse, aphrodism, Aphrodite, apple of one's eye, arm, Ars Amandi, arse over teakettle, arse over tit, arsey-versey, Ashtoreth, ass over head, ass-to-mouth, Astarte, Athor, attachment, auntie queen, Aut amat aut odit: nil est tertium, autophilia, babe lair, babyolatry, bad, bad girl, bagels, ballad bar, bar handles, baroselgia, bastard, battle of the sexes, batty, batty about, bauble, bawble, be captivated by, be crazy about, be cuckoo over, be enchanted by, be fascinated by, be gone on, be gooey about, be goofy about, be hot for, be infatuated with, be mad about, be mooney for, be nuts about, be smitten with, be soft on, be stuck on, be sweet on, be swept off one's feet, be taken with, be turned on by, be wacky about, be your own best friend, beat of one's heart, beating fantasies, beaver trap, beguin, beloved, besotted, better half, big love, billet-doux, billy-doo, bird's nest, Bitchville, bitten, bitten by the love bug, blind love, blue balls, blueballs, bohemian, Bohemian love, BOLTOP, bon vivant, boots and shoes fetish, box the compass, break out in a rash over, broadway broads, brothel, brotherly love, bumper-to-bumper, burdock, burn up over, bury the hobbit, buttfuck buddy, buttock jig, calf love, callicacia, Camille, canonize, Canticle of Canticles, canyon yodeling, care, care for someone in a big way, caress, caritas, carry a torch, carry flaming embers for, carry off one's feet, carry on, carry the torch, carrying a torch, case, case of spoons, a, catch on fire, catch someone's eye, cause of causes, cave man, chase the brown clown around the town, chastity, chemistry, Chirambault-Kandinsky syndrome, clam jousting, click, click right off the bat, clit fight, cold sex, con amore, conditional love, contrectophilia, cookies, corner, cotton to, coup de foudre, covet, crab lice, crabs, cracked on, crave, crazy about, cream in one's coffee, crush, cuckoo over, cuddle, cum, cunt, cunt-struck, cupboard love, Cupid, Cupid dances on his/her eyelids, Cupid's sting, Cupids cramp, custard, Cyprian, D-love, dacrylagnia, daft about, dally, darling, darlink, DDW, dead nuts on, dear one, deflower, dendrophilia, dendrophily, dilly-dally, dirty pillows, distillatia, divorce, dizzy over, do me nasty, dollink, dont fight it, its bigger than both of us, Dorian love, Doric love, double butterfly, doughnut to doughnut, drool over, enamor, enamored, envelope, Erato, erogenous, Eros, erotic, erotica, erotogenic, erotology, erotomastia, erotophobe, erotophobia, eternal triangle, eternal wound, the, face-to-face mating, fall for, fall for (someone) in a big way, fall for like a ton of bricks, fall hard for, fall head-over-heels for, fall in a big way, fall in love (with), falsies, fancy, fancy-free, far gone, far gone on, far goner, febris amatoria, feel funny about, feel that funny feeling, feel that way, feeling gay, femme fatale, flat fuck, fling, flip over, flip over for, flirt, flirtation, floozy, fluzie, fond of, fool for, a, for the love of, fore-pleasure, fork and spoon, form an attachment, four-letter word, free love, free lover, 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Quotes Containing love:
Erich Fromm: 'Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.'
Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) in Romeo is Bleeding (1993): 'You don't own love ; love owns you.'
Sonja (Diane Keaton) to young Natasha (Jessica Harper) in Love and Death (1975): 'Natasha, to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love . But then one suffers from not loving . Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love . To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love , or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down .'
Anna (Meridith Snaider) in Habit (1997): ''Men fall in-love ... they don''t stay in-love .''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): 'Early love , chemically based, is when you love the way the other person makes you feel. It is self-centered, feel-good love . Mature love , which comes later in a relationship , is love for whoever a person is. It is other-centered.'
Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): 'Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous.'
Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): 'Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous.'
Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo) to her friend Cornelius Van Tayl (Lewis Stone) in Romance (1930): 'What is love? It's made of kisses in the dark , of hot breath on the face , of hearts that beat with terribly strong blows. Love is just a beast that you feed all through the night and when the morning comes, love dies. ' And later: 'To me love is only a little warmth in all this cold , just a little light in all this darkness, one little minute to lie still in the beloved's arms, one little minute to forget and that's all.'
Charley (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): 'That ain't love . In-love is temporary. Then you move on to the next in-love. Everybody is always falling in and out of love .'
Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson) and Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi''s Honor (1985): ''That ain''t love . In-love is temporary. Then you move on to the next in-love. Everybody is always falling in and out of love .''
Charley (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi''s Honor (1985): ''That ain''t love . In-love is temporary. Then you move on to the next in-love. Everybody is always falling in and out of love .''
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) to Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally (1989): ''I love that you get cold when it''s 71 out . I love that you take an hour and a half to order a sandwich . I love that you get-a-little crinkle above your nose when you look on me like I''m nuts . I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it''s not because I''m lonely. And it''s not because it''s New Year''s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with someboby, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.''
Classic pickup-line : ''I love every bone in your body - especially mine.''
Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) in Viva Zapata (1952): 'I believe that love cannot be bought except with love and that he who has a good wife wears heaven in his hat .'
Huntley Haverstock/John Jones (Joel McCrea) to Carol Fisher (Laraine Day) in Foreign Correspondent (1940). - Johnny Jones: ''I''m in-love-with you, and I want to marry you.'' - Carol Fisher: ''I''m in-love-with you, and I want to marry you.'' - Johnny Jones: ''Hmm... That cuts down our love-scene quite a bit , doesn''t it?''
In Blume in Love (1973: ''She took your whoopee and whipped you with it .''
Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) about relationships and love-in The Buddy System (1984): ''And when it''s over, we fall in-love-with the pain.''
Albert Einstein: ''Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in-love .''
Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) in Texasville (1990): ''I''m too broke to fall in-love .''
Anonymous: ''Love is a phwoarrr letter word.''
Seth Winnick about ''hot'' Chelsea Turner in Love Sucks (2000): ''She could steam-clean carpets. ''
Annette (Reese Witherspoon) in Cruel Intentions (1999): ''People shouldn''t experience the act-of-love until they are in-love .''
Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): 'Love is a miracle. It's like a birthmark, you can't hide it .
Anna (Ingrid Bergman) in Indiscreet (1958): 'When love is right, everything is right.'
Groucho (Groucho Marx) in Monkey Business (1931): 'Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo .'
Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): 'You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in-love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that when we fall in-love we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us so that love contains in it the contradiction: the attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.'
Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): 'You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself.'
Joan (Angelina Jolie) in Playing by Heart (1998): 'Talking about love is like dancing about architecture.'
William Parish (Anthony Hopkins) to Joe Black (Brad Pitt) in Meet Joe Black (1999): 'Love is passion . Obsession. Someone you can't live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back . Listen to your heart . No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in-love , you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried , then you haven't lived.'
Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): 'You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself.'
Charlie (Martin Sheen) in Da (1988): 'It was a long time before I realised that love upside down is love for all that.'
Pat Jamieson (Spencer Tracy) speaking about love-in Without Love (1945): 'Never no more. I don't want anymore of that sickness.'
Joan (Angelina Jolie) in Playing by Heart (1999): 'Talking about love is like dancing about architecture.'
Franklin P . Jones: 'Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.'
Woodrow Wyatt: 'A man falls in-love through his eyes , a woman through her ears. '
Gandhi: 'Where there is love there is life .'
Francis Bacon: 'It is impossible to love and to be wise.'
Thomas Mann: 'It is love , not reason, that is stronger than death.'
Miguel de Unamuno: 'Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.'
William Shakespeare: 'Love is merely a madness.'
Albert Einstein: 'Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in-love .'
Francis Edward Smedley: 'All's fair in-love and war.'
Anonymous: 'Love is a phwoarrr letter word.'
Angela Brooks/Madam Satan (Kay Johnson) in Madam Satan (1930): ''True love is believing that the one you love is quite above defeat.''
Melissa Morrison (Saffron Burrows) in Hotel of Love (1996): ''My mother believed in love-at-first-sight with Dad, with her second husband , and her third.''
The Prostitute (Lily Tomlin) in Shadows and Fog (1992): ''The only love that lasts is unrequited love .''
Mike Anthony (Clark Gable) falling in-love-with Sally Parker (Joan Crawford) in Love on the Run (1936): ''You''ve suddenly turned to be the only girl this side of the moon .''
W.B. Yeats: ''Love has pitched her mansion in the place of excrement.''
Charlie (Martin Sheen) in Da (1988): ''It was a long time before I realised that love upside down is love for all that.''
Gabrielle (Eve Arden) in Night and Day (1946): ''I was in-love myself once... many times.''
Kate (Meg Ryan) and Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline) in French Kiss (1995): - Kate: ''Do you believe in-love , the kind that lasts forever?'' - Luc: ''I loved my mother .'' - Kate: ''Everybody loves their mother . Even people who hate their mother love their mother .''
Kate (Meg Ryan) and Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline) in French Kiss (1995): - Kate: ''Do you believe in-love , the kind that lasts forever?'' - Luc: ''I loved my mother .'' - Kate: ''Everybody loves their mother . Even people who hate their mother love their mother .''
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Madge (Bette Davis) in Cabin in the Cotton (1932):'I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.' She says it with a thick accent: 'Ah'd love t'kiss you but ah jes washed mah hayuh.'
Stella Purdy (Stella Stevens) to Julius Kelp/Buddy Love (Jerry Lewis) in The Nutty Professor (1963): ''I always say that to love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance and after watching you I know that you and you will be very happy together.''
Sonja (Diane Keaton) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Sonja: 'Sex without love is an empty experience.' - Boris : 'Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.'
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Jan (Doris Day) and Jonathan (Tony Randall) in Pillow Talk (1959): - Jan Morrow: ''Jonathan, I just don''t happen to love you.'' - Jonathan Forbes: ''How do you know? Love isn''t an opinion, it''s a chemical reaction.''
Felix/Baron Von Gaigern (John Barrymore) to Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo) in Grand Hotel (1932): ''You must believe one thing . You must believe that I love you. That I''ve never known love like this until now.''
Lola''s (Marlene Dietrich) answer (in German) to a student''s declaration of love (in English) in The Blue Angel (1930): - Student: ''I love you.'' - Lola: ''Stop that English drivel.''
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Don Juan (Johnny Depp) describes his love for Dona Ana (Geraldine Paililas) in Don-Juan DeMarco (1994): ''There are those who do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But how else to explain love at first sight?''
Angelique (Jessica Lange) and Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) in All That Jazz (1979): - Angelique: 'Do you believe in love?' - Joe Gideon: 'I believe in saying: I love you.'
The Oracle to Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix (1999): 'Being the one is just like being in-love . No one can tell you you're in-love . You just know it , through and through, balls to bones .'
Sonja (Diane Keaton) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Sonja: 'Sex without love is an empty experience.' - Boris : 'Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.'
Peachum (Fritz Rasp), the king of beggars, to his daughter Polly (Carola Meher) who secretly married Mack the Knife (Rudolph Forster) in The Threepenny Penny Opera (1931): - Peachum: 'You'll get a divorce!' - Polly: 'But I love him! How can I get a divorce?' - Peachum: 'I'll tan your behind!' - Polly: 'It won't do any good. Love is greater that a tanned behind .'
Lola (Marlene Dietrich) answering in German to a student's declaration of love made in English in The Blue Angel (1930): - Student: 'I love you.' - Lola: 'Stop that English drivel.'
Debra (Jeanne Crain) and Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) in People Will Talk (1951): - Debra: 'I'm in-love-with you.' - Noah: 'What makes you think so?' - Debra: 'I can't give you symptoms. It's love not measles.'
Diane (Joan Collins) and Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) in The Road to Hong Kong (1962): - Diana: 'You know , Chester, you're the sort of man that I could love .' - Chester: 'Could you?' - Diana: 'Oh yes , I could, Chester. I could love you body and soul.' - Chester: 'They're available , in that order.'
Annie (Diane Keaton) and Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977): - Annie: 'Do you love me?' - Alvy: 'Love is too weak a word... I luuurv you. I lOOOve you. I luff you, two f's.'
Harold (Bud Cort) and Maude (Ruth Gordon) who is dying in Harold and Maude (1972): - Harold: 'I love you!' - Maud: 'Oh Harold! That's wonderful! Go and love some more.'
Lena O''Connor (Thelma Ritter) stuffing the bra of a model in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''More men have promised to love , honor and obey a good set of sponge rubbers than they''ll ever know .''
Axel (Johnny Depp) in Arizona Dream (1994): ''It was wrong to say I was falling in-love because I never felt any weight; I was really flying in-love for the first time in my life .''
'Don't you love 'em? Couldn't you love 'em? Picture of a capitalistic cock crowing his head off and never guessing what a noise he's making.' Vicky (Elizabeth McGovern) in Women & Men. Stories of Seduction (1990).
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) who is in-love-with a cheap detective in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): - Lorelei: 'You don't want to end up with a loveless marriage , do you?' - Dorothy: 'Me?! Loveless?!' - Lorelei: 'That's right. Because if a girl spends all her time worrying about the money she doesn't have, how is she going to have any time for being in love? I want you to find happiness and stop having fun.'
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ''Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .''
Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage as: 'A woman who gets bed and boredom.'
Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990): 'Please, God! Don't let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things. '
Alfred Douglas: ''I am the Love that dare not speak its name.'' Last line of his poem: Two Loves.
Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): 'You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .'
Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941): 'Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet.'
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
In Love in the Afternoon (1957): ''A girl may look as pure as fresh-allen snow but suddenly you discover the footprints of a hundred men.''
Bette Davis in Cabin in the Cotton (1932): ''I''d love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.''
Wilson (Edward G . Robinson) in The Stranger (1946): ''People can''t help who they fall in-love-with .''
Divorce lawyer Gavin D'Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): 'If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .'
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
Sancho Panza (James Coco) to Aldonza (Sophia Loren) speaking of Don Quichote in Man of La Mancha (1972): 'They say one mad man makes in hundred and love makes in thousand.'
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Merlin (Nicol Williamson) to King Arthur (Nigel Terry) in Excalibur (1981): 'This lunacy called love , this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king .'
Andrew (Woody Allen) in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982): 'Sex alleviates tension and love causes it .'
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): 'I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we're alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. Scarlett! Look at me. I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman . Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.'
Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), Parisian cab driver, to fortune hunter Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) in Midnight (1939): 'When you're poor love flies out the window.'
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O''Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): ''I love you Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us. I love you because we''re alike, bad lots the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. (...) Scarlett! Look at me. I''ve loved you more than I''ve ever loved any woman and I''ve waited longer for you than I''ve ever waited for any woman . (...) Here''s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You''re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.''
Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990): 'Please, God! Don't let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things. '
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Harris K . Telemacher (Steve Martin) in L.A. Story (1991): 'Why is it that we don't always recognise the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends?'
Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) in Nothing but Trouble (1991): 'When it comes to love , there's no accounting for taste.'
Gwen (Yvonne Zima) in 'Til There Was You (1997): 'Love's cruel, love's a flirt , love has places to go and people to hurt.'
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Father MacLean (Tom Skerritt) in a sermon in A River Runs Through It (1993): 'We can love completely without complete understanding.'
Rita (Stacey Nelkin) in Bullets Over Broadwaty (1994): 'For me, love is very deep, but sex only has to go a few inches. '
Alfred Douglas: 'I am the Love that dare not speak its name.' Last line of his poem: Two Loves.
Margaret Atwood: 'Nobody dies from lack of sex . It's lack of love we die from.'
Rosemonde Gerard: 'For you see , each day I love you more / Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.'
Jorge Luis Borges 'To fall in-love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.'
Lao Tzu: 'To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.'
Lucy Hill (Diana Lynn) in The Major and the Minor (1942): ''Love is a very astigmatic condition.''
Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): 'Love. Soft stuff!'
Noel Annan: 'So often when we say: I love you, we say it with a huge 'I' and a small 'you'.'
William Shakespeare: ''Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind .''
Divorce lawyer Gavin D''Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ''If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .''
Tim and Beverly Lehaye. The Act of Marriage (1975): ''Masturbation is the thief of love .''
Tim and Beverly Lehaye. The Act of Marriage (1975): ''Masturbation is the thief of love .''
Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schult: ''Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love .''
Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) to Richard Ashenden (John Gielgud) in Secret Agent (1936): ''I fell in-love-with you at first sight; not a crush but a crash.''
Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) to Edgar Brodie/Richard Ashenden (John Gielgud) in Secret Agent (1936): ''I fell in-love-with you at first sight; not a crush but a crash.''
John Irving. The World According to Garp (1978): ''No glove , no love .''
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) smiling enigmatically at King Henry (Peter O''Toole) in The Lion in Winter (1968): ''Can you read love-in that?''
Charlie Chong (Jan Gan Boyd) asking Jay Killian (Charles Bronson) if he''s falling in-love-with the First Lady in Assassination (1987): ''Are you falling for that bimbo?''
David Bissonette : ''I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry . That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.''
''Love is a matter of chemistry , sex is a matter of physics.'' From Murphy''s Laws on Sex.
''I''m going out for a bite to drink.'' Count Vladimir Dracula (George Hamilton) in Love at First Bite (1979)
Ed Forbes (Jack Paar) to Roberta Stevens (Marilyn Monroe) in Love Nest (1951): ''If there''s one thing I have a weakness for it''s girls who have a weakness.''
Sung by Johnny Depp as Cry-Baby (1990): ''We love being bad because it feels so good.''
Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) to Devlin (Cary Grant) in Notorious (1946): ''Poor Dev, in-love-with a no-good girl .''
King Arthur (Sean Connery) in First Knight (1995): ''I take the good with the bad . I can''t love people in pieces. ''
Sung by Johnny Depp as Cry-Baby (1990): ''We love being bad because it feels so good.''
King Arthur (Sean Connery) in First Knight (1995): ''I take the good with the bad . I can''t love people in pieces. ''
Sung by Johnny Depp as Cry-Baby (1990): ''We love being bad because it feels so good.''
Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) to Devlin (Cary Grant) in Notorious (1946): ''Poor Dev, in-love-with a no-good girl .''
Ed Forbes (Jack Paar) to Roberta Stevens (Marilyn Monroe) in Love Nest (1951): ''If there''s one thing I have a weakness for it''s girls who have a weakness.''
Sung by Johnny Depp as Cry-Baby (1990): ''We love being bad because it feels so good.''
King Arthur (Sean Connery) in First Knight (1995): ''I take the good with the bad . I can''t love people in pieces. ''
Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) to Devlin (Cary Grant) in Notorious (1946): ''Poor Dev, in-love-with a no-good girl .''
Ed Forbes (Jack Paar) to Roberta Stevens (Marilyn Monroe) in Love Nest (1951): ''If there''s one thing I have a weakness for it''s girls who have a weakness.''
Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) to Devlin (Cary Grant) in Notorious (1946): ''Poor Dev, in-love-with a no-good girl .''
Ed Forbes (Jack Paar) to Roberta Stevens (Marilyn Monroe) in Love Nest (1951): ''If there''s one thing I have a weakness for it''s girls who have a weakness.''
King Arthur (Sean Connery) in First Knight (1995): ''I take the good with the bad . I can''t love people in pieces. ''
''A beautiful girl is all-powerful and that''s as good as love .'' Paul (Michael Rapaport) in Beautiful Girls (1996)
Joyce (Kate Capshaw) to Nick (Michael Douglas) in Black Rain (1989): ''A love/hate relationship can last a very long time.''
Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman) in Intermezzo (1939): ''When we are young we expect the people we love to behave like gods, most of all, I-suppose , our fathers.''
Dr. Arnold (Samuel S. Hinds) to Dr. Jane Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds (1935): ''We hate the people we love because they are the only ones who can hurt us.''
Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): ''You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .''
Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase) to ex-wife Glenda Park (Goldie Hawn) in Seems Like Old Times (1980): ''I love the way your eyes curl up when you look at me.''
Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) to Richard Ashenden (John Gielgud) in Secret Agent (1936): ''I fell in-love-with you at first sight; not a crush but a crash.''
Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who''s Laughing (1941): ''Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet.''
Frisco Doll (Mae West) in Klondike Annie (1936): ''I''m an Occidental woman in an Oriental mood for-love .''
Dr. Arnold (Samuel S. Hinds) to Dr. Jane Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds (1935): ''We hate the people we love because they are the only ones who can hurt us.''
Stella Purdy (Stella Stevens) to Julius Kelp/Buddy Love (Jerry Lewis) in The Nutty Professor (1963): ''If I were your baby I''d be swinging from a tree.''
Seth Winnick to his black friend in Love Sucks (2000): ''Larry, you''re my best-friend but if I see Mr. Chocolate I''m gonna scream.''
John Travolta as/in Michael (1997): ''You''ve got to learn to laugh; it''s the way to true-love .''
Lysander (Dick Powell) in A Midsummer''s Night Dream (1935): ''Hermia, the course of true-love never did run smooth.''
Rita (Stacey Nelkin) in Bullets Over Broadwaty (1994): 'For me, love is very deep, but sex only has to go a few inches. '
D'Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998): 'I believe that one man can love one woman all his life and be the better for it .'
Diane (Elizabeth Ashley) in Happiness (1998): ''I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother .''
Robin (Faizon Love) in Bebe''s Kids (1992): ''I am pissed-off to the highest level of pissivity.''
Stella Purdy (Stella Stevens) to Julius Kelp/Buddy Love (Jerry Lewis) who called her 'baby' in The Nutty Professor (1963): 'If I were your baby I'd be swinging from a tree.'
Diane (Elizabeth Ashley) in Happiness (1998): ''I want kids that love me as much as I hated my mother .''
A woman in a bar at the sight of Nick Nolte in I Love Trouble (1994): ''Don''t you think he''s off the charts hot?''
Jack (Ted Danson) in 3 Men and a Baby (1987): ''I''m in-love ... in a generic way .''
Divorce lawyer Gavin D''Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ''If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .''
William Shakespeare: ''Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind .''
Lucy Hill (Diana Lynn) in The Major and the Minor (1942): ''Love is a very astigmatic condition.''
Andrew (Woody Allen) in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982): 'Sex alleviates tension and love causes it .'
Nathalie De Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) in The Moderns (1988): 'Don't confuse sex and love , Mr. Hart. It will spoil both of 'em for you.'
Merlin (Nicol Williamson) in Excalibur (1981): ''You''re not listening. Your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind .''
Kate (Bonnie Hunt) and Faith (Marisa Tomei) in Only You (1994): - Kate: ''I saw a psychiatrist on Donahue say that love songs are just a cruel hoax that feed people''s fantasies. Romance on a daily basis? Nobody has that.'' - Faith: ''But, Kate, somebody wrote those songs. They come-out of somebody''s experience.'' - Kate: ''No, I think the come-out of somebody''s imagination .''
Jim Scott (William Lundigan) in Love Nest (1951): ''I don''t know what old Charlie''s got, but I wish I could bottle it . We''d make a fortune.''
Melissa (Courtenay Cox) and Ace (Jim Carrey) in Ace Ventura. Pet Detective (1994): - Melissa: ''You really love animals, don''t you?'' - Ace: ''If it gets cold enough.''
Marsha (Lena Olin) and Herman Broder (Ron Silver) in Enemies: A Love Story (1989): - Herman: ''Suppose that-there were no men left on the earth, would you do-it with another woman?'' - Marsha: ''Sure, why not? Would you do-it with another man?'' - Herman: ''Absolutely not. (...) Because then I wouldn''t find my other-half . But an animal . You give me a nice sheep or a goat . That''s another story.''
Tillie Seltzer (Carol Burnett) and husband Pete (Walter Matthau) in Pete ''n'' Tillie (1972): - Tillie: ''When I think of all the times I was so irritated with you yet, right now, I don''t think I ever loved you more.'' - Pete: ''Well, love without irritation is just lust .''
The cynical Squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to blacksmith Plog (Ake Fridell) who is looking for his unfaithfull wife in The Seventh Seal (1957): ''Haven''t you learned by now that love is just another word for lust?''
Countess (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Countess Alexandrovna: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris Grushenko: ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing: ''Love is blind with sex in mind, but don''t be resigned, it always takes two of a kind.''
Julie Blair (Karen Sharpe) and Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis) in The Disorderly Orderly (1964): - Julie: ''You loved your father, didn''t you?'' - Jerome: ''Love you can''t help, but I also respected and admired my father. Respect and admiration you have to earn.'' - Julie: ''Who else have you ever loved?'' - Jerome: ''Oh, well, I loved his wife . She was like a mother to me.''
''What do you know about love , nymphonese? If I didn?t have you chained to this wall no man in this town would be safe .'' Doctor Malaqua (Joseph Bologna) to vampire (with false teeth) Odette (Geena Davis) in Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
''What do you know about love , nymphonese? If I didn?t have you chained to this wall no man in this town would be safe .'' Doctor Malaqua (Joseph Bologna) to vampire (with false teeth) Odette (Geena Davis) in Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
Larry Wilson (William Powell) and his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): - Larry: 'You be careful, madam , or you'll turn my head with your flattery.' - Kay:'I often wished I could turn your head ... on a spit over a slow fire.'
Julie Blair (Karen Sharpe) and Jerome Littlefield (Jerry Lewis) in The Disorderly Orderly (1964): - Julie: ''You loved your father, didn''t you?'' - Jerome: ''Love you can''t help, but I also respected and admired my father. Respect and admiration you have to earn.'' - Julie: ''Who else have you ever loved?'' - Jerome: ''Oh, well, I loved his wife . She was like a mother to me.''
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): ''Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.''
Nick (Anthony Quinn) a Greek desperately in-love-with his bigoted Irish neighbor Rose Muldoon (Maureen O''Hara) in Only the Lonely (1991): ''You''ve forgotten what a sweet thing romance can be. Come to my bed . You will never leave.''
Ted (Lawrence Monoson) in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984): 'Jimbo, calling Betty is definitely a dead fuck thing to do .Look, first rule of love : never get rejected by the same girl twice, I mean that's useless. If you want to make a fool out of yourself, always do-it with someone new.' SOMETIMES MEANNESS AND REJECTION IS FLIRTING IN DISGUISE
Ambrose Bierce (Gregory Peck) to Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) in Old Gringo (1989): 'Man, as you know , is one of the most pathetic creatures on earth, condemned to a desire that contradicts all the laws of nature, to close the gap between two human beings. Some call this desire of love , and it is desperately impossible to satisfy.'
Candy (Ruth Marshall) and David (Thomas Gibson) in Love and Human Remains (1993): - Candy: 'I want more than just sex .' - David: 'That's why God invented television.'
Leonard Cummings (Peter Frechette) to his younger brother Charles (Jon Cryer) in No Small Affair (1984): 'Sex has nothing to do with love . Sex washes off .'
Doug Ireland (Michael J. FoX) in For Love or Money (1993): ''I''m a genie in a suit. Just rub me and make a wish.''
Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): ''Sex comes from the Latin secare, "to cut or divide," and we first used the word to designate the two major categories of humanity we have come to know and love as male and female. We later used the word sex not only for dividing the sexes, but to refer to qualities of being male or female.'
Jim Scott (William Lundigan) in Love Nest (1951): ''I don''t know what old Charlie''s got, but I wish I could bottle it . We''d make a fortune.''
Jim Scott (William Lundigan) in Love Nest (1951): ''I don''t know what old Charlie''s got, but I wish I could bottle it . We''d make a fortune.''
Corey (Jane Fonda) to her new husband Paul in Barefoot in the Park (1967): 'Paul, I think I'm gonna be a lousy wife . But don't be angry with me. I love you very much... and I'm very sexy!'
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) toJane (Priscilla Presley) in Naked Gun 2 . The Smell of Fear (1991): 'I'm single! I love being single! I haven't had so much sex since I was a boy scout leader.'
Dr. Alex Tremor (Jeff Daniels) and Grace (Frances McDormand) in The Butcher''s Wife (1991): - Alex: ''My career is in a shambles and my best-friend is sleeping with my girlfriend .'' - Grace: ''Ain''t love grand?''
Maggy (Mary Cecil) in The Women (1939): ''You know , the first man who can think up a good explanation how he can be in-love-with his wife and another woman is going to win that prize they''re always giving out in Sweden.''
The First Lady, Larramie Royce (Jill Ireland) to secret service agent Jay Killian (Charles Bronson) if he?s falling in-love-with the first lady in Assassination (1987):''Killian, these are Italian shoes. They qualify as a lethal weapon . You lay one finger on me and you?ll get one in the southern-hemisphere .''
Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ''A time-saver; but lots of married people wish they had wiped their glasses for a good second look.''
n their first meeting, both Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) and Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol) have a feeling of dja vu in The Thirteenth Floor (1999): ''They say that dja vu is usually a sign of love-at-first-sight .''
Anna Bronski (Anne Bancroft) to her young flyer Lt. Andre Sobinski (Tim Matheson) in To Be or Not to Be (1983): ''True love should never stand in the way of a good-time .''
Westley/Robert the Pirate (Cary Elwes) to Buttercup (Robin Wright) in Princess Bride (1987): ''Death cannot stop true-love . All it can do is delay it for a while.''
Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) to Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) in The Natural (1984): ''I''m not waiting for true-love to come along, Roy. I never have. I''ve known a million guys. ''
Linda Lue Linden (Sandra Bullock) and Kyle Davidson (Dermott Mulroney) in The Thing Called Love (1993): - Linda: ''Hey, Kyle Davidson!'' - Kyle: ''Hey, Linda Lue, is that your pretty face I''m seeing?'' - Linda: ''Well, it ain''t nobody''s butt .''
Sheila Kingston''s (Rosie O''Donnell) voice over commentary at the end of Exit to Eden (1994): ''So, what did I learn from this case? No matter what your sexual-preference is true-love is still the ultimate fantasy.''
John Boys (James LeGros) thinking of his promiscuous girlfriend Jessica (Lisa Zane) in Floundering (1994): ''If you want someone to fulfill an image and they don''t you are eventually going to have a big, big problem with who they really are. I thought true-love conquered all. That''s the supreme fiction. If you walk into a room and find yourself instantly attracted to someone there, get the fuck-out of that room because that is the wrong person for you.''
Harry Anders (Michael Caine) and Stacey Mansdorf (Sean Young) in Blue Ice (1992): - Harry:''I knew a girl like you once and I felt the same way about her as I feel about you. I didn''t know whether to love her or hate her.'' - Stacey:''So what did you do?'' - Harry:''A little of both.''
Louis Cyphre (Lucifer) (Robert De Niro) in Angel Heart (1987):''They say there''s just enough religion in the world to make men hate one another but not enough to make them love .''
Captain Nemo (James Mason) and Professor Aronnax (Paul Lukas) in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954): - Captain Nemo: ''What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can .'' - Professor Aronnax: ''I''m sorry for you. It''s a bitter substitute.''
Fun-loving Flicienne (Eva Gabor) explains how she came to take a champagne bath with a Duke in A New Kind of Love (1963): 'How could I say no when it's so much easier to say yes?'
Lena O''connor (Thelma Ritter) to Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''One thing a fellah doesn''t want from a girl is surprises. Forty percent of all divorce cases start on honeymoon night.''
Chimene (Sophia Loren) thinking of Rodrigo (Charlton Heston) in El Cid (1961): ''They say all women in-love are tormented that-way , because they don''t believe that such happiness can really be theirs.''
Duffy (Gene Wilder) and Dr. Benjamin (David Margulies) inFunny About Love (1990): - Duffy: ''You want me to put some sperm into this little cup?'' - Doctor: ''That''s right, Mr. Bergman. (...)'' - Duffy: ''Wait a minute! You know , you make this sound easy, but I''ve never done this before.'' - Doctor: ''Come, come , Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Twice!? You want me to do-it twice. We''ll be here all day.''
Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) in the guise of The Mask (1994) puns horny with thorny when flirting with Tina Carlisle (Cameron Diaz): ''Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.''
Beth (Kim Greist) reading the ''cryptic'' last lines of Larry''s (Billy Crystal) novel in Throw Momma Off the Train (1987); ''Hate makes you impotent . Love makes you crazy. Somewhere in-between , you can survive.''
Harry Anders (Michael Caine) and Stacey Mensdorf (Sean Young) in Blue Ice (1992): - Harry: ''I knew a girl like you once and I felt the same way about her as I feel about you. I didn''t know whether to love her or hate her.'' - Stacey: ''So what did you do?'' - Harry: ''A little of both.''
Frank Broderick (Henry Fonda) and Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) Sex and the Single Girl (1964): - Frank: ''What do you call-it when you hate the woman you love?'' - Bob: ''A wife .''
Hesther Prynne (Demi Moore) in The Scarlet Letter (1995): ''How close they are love and hate. We are no less man by one than the other.''
China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935): ''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .''
Lena (Thelma Ritter) to Sam/Samantha (Joanne Woodward) in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''One thing a fellah doesn''t want from a girl is surprises. Forty percent of all divorce cases start on honeymoon night.''
Marsha (Lena Olin) and Herman Broder (Ron Silver) in Enemies: A Love Story (1989): - Herman: ''Suppose that-there were no men left on the earth, would you do-it with another woman?'' - Marsha: ''Sure, why not? Would you do-it with another man?'' - Herman: ''Absolutely not. (...) Because then I wouldn''t find my other-half . But an animal . You give me a nice sheep or a goat . That''s another story.''
Melissa (Courtenay Cox) and Ace (Jim Carrey) in Ace Ventura. Pet Detective (1994): - Melissa: ''You really love animals, don''t you?'' - Ace: ''If it gets cold enough.''
Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) about his mistress Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) who, after some time with a tutor to ''smarten her up'' is now smart enough to leave him in Born Yesterday (1950): ''I love that broad . Do you think we could find someone to make her dumb again?'' He also says, on a philosophical tone: ''A broad is a broad!''
Dr. Lecter to Det. Luger (Samuel L. Jackson) Det. Colt (Emilio Estevez) in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993): 'And when you find him, please, I would love to eat his cookies with some fava beans and a chilled Fresca.'
Lena Yakushova ''Ninotchka'' (Greta Garbo), a Soviet envoy to Paris, to Count Leon Bressart (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939): ''Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary, biological, or shall we say chemical, process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it .''
Melissa (Courtenay Cox) and Ace (Jim Carrey) in Ace Ventura. Pet Detective (1994): - Melissa: ''You really love animals, don''t you?'' - Ace: ''If it gets cold enough.''
Marsha (Lena Olin) and Herman (Ron Silver) in Enemies: A Love Story (1989): - Herman: ''Suppose that-there were no men left on the earth, would you do-it with another woman?'' - Marsha: ''Sure, why not? Would you do-it with another man?'' - Herman: ''Absolutely not. (...) Because then I wouldn''t find my other-half . But an animal . You give me a nice sheep or a goat . That''s another story.''
Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and Mata Hari (Greta Garbo) in Mata Hari (1932): - Alexis: 'I love you as one adores sacred things. ' - Mata Hari:'What sacred things?' - Alexis: 'God, country , honor, you.' - Mata Hari:'I come last?' - Alexis:'No, you come first , before anything.'
Charles MacArthur (Matthew Broderick) and Dotty Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) at the start of their love-affair in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) - Charles: 'I felt we were pretty good together for the first time.' - Dotty:'I expect you'll tell me it takes practice.' - Charles: 'Double adultery cancels itself out .' - Dotty:'Questionable logic but I like the theory.'
Isabel Lorrison (Ava Gardner) to Brandon Bourne (James Mason) in East Side, West Side (1949): ''Maybe it wasn''t love , maybe it was only chemistry , or the right combination, or a miracle, but most people drag through their whole lives without finding it .''
''Sex don''t mean a thing to me, Buddy. It ain''t nothing but a mosquito bite . (...) Buddy, I''m gonna tell you a secret. Girls don''t want sex , girls want love .'' Rose (Laura Dern) to Buddy (Lukas Haas) in Rambling Rose (1991)
Bergman (Gene Wilder) and Dr. Benjamin (David Margulies) in Funny About Love (1990): - Duffy: ''You want me to put some sperm into this little cup?'' - Doctor: ''That''s right, Mr. Bergman. (...)'' - Duffy: ''Wait a minute! You know , you make this sound easy, but I''ve never done this before.'' - Doctor: ''Come, come , Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Twice!? You want me to do-it twice. We''ll be here all day.''
Nicole L''Oiselle (Claudette Colbert) toasting her reconciliation with her husband Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) in Bluebeard''s Eight Wife (1938): - Nicole: ''Here''s to our agreement: no love-making, no quarrels.'' - Michael:''Just like an ordinary married couple .'' - Nicole:''I said no quarrels.''
Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) implores God by crossing herself in Mermaids (1990): ''Please, God! Don''t let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things. ''
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) describing Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley) in The Naked Gun (1988): ''Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you''d kinda love to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket.''
Gore Vidal: ''I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon . I cannot understand the love-affair .''
Doctor Malaqua (Joseph Bologna) to vampire (with false teeth) Odette (Geena Davis) in Transylvania 6-5000 (1985): ''What do you know about love , nymphonese (nympho-knees?). If I didn''t have you chained to this wall no man in this town would be safe .''
Sylvia/Sylvester Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) to the young painter Michael Fane (Brian Aherne) in Sylvia Scarlett (1936): - Sylvia: ''Because I love you!'' - Michael: ''But, I never guessed!'' - Sylvia: ''Never guessed that I adored you? Never guessed that you made the whole world different for me?''
''The Scriptures are very clear. Proverbs warns us: Woman takes possession of a man''s precious soul. While the Ecclesiastics tells us: More bitter than death is woman .'' William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) warning Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) against falling in love-in The Name of the Rose (1986)
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
''The Scriptures are very clear. Proverbs warns us: Woman takes possession of a man''s precious soul. While the Ecclesiastics tells us: More bitter than death is woman .'' William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) warning Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) against falling in love-in The Name of the Rose (1986)
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
''The Scriptures are very clear. Proverbs warns us: Woman takes possession of a man''s precious soul. While the Ecclesiastics tells us: More bitter than death is woman .'' William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) warning Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) against falling in love-in The Name of the Rose (1986)
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) to Annie (Diane Keaton) in Annie Hall (1977): ''Don''t knock masturbation! It''s sex with someone I love .'' Off-screen Woody Allen also said: ''I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it''s fantastic.''
Countess Alexandrovna (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Alex: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris : ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
Tenny/Tennyson (E.E. Clive) to Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) in Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937): ''Love at first sight is rather like a mule, Miss Clavering. It kicks backward.''
Jack Lemmon) to his neighbor Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) who spent the night with Maria Ragetti (Sophia Loren) in Grumpier Old Men (1995): - John: 'I don't believe it! You and that beautiful lady?' - Max: 'I am the thief of heart , I am the gangster of love .' - John: 'Gangster, hey? Well, tell me. Was it more of a hold-up than a stick-up?'
Julia (Geena Davis) and Kevin (Michael Keaton) in Speechless (1994) - Julia: 'Shall we speak the unspoken language of love?' - Kevin: 'You mean the kind only dogs can hear?' - Julia: 'Yes. The very same.'
Vince Tyler (Craig Kelly) in the TV series Queer as Folk (1999): ''Unrequited love . It''s fantastic, because it never has to change, it never has to grow up and it never has to die .''
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947): - Richard :''It''s awful what a woman can do to a man . Look at history: Caesar and Cleopatra.'' - Susan:''Napoleon and Josephine.'' - Richard :''All of them. Behind every defeated man there''s a frustrated love .''
Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) after falling in love-at-first-sight of Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) in I.Q. (1994): ''You wouldn''t believe it . I looked at her, she looked at me, and it happened. You could feel it . It was like death, but in a good way .''
Robin (Cary Elwes) and Marian (Amy Yasbeck) in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993): - Robin: ''Maid Marian, do you believe in-love at first sight?'' - Marian: ''Depends on what you''re looking at.''
Joe Fabrini (George Raft) and Cassie (Ann Sheridan) in They Drive by Night (1940): - Joe: ''Oh, Cassie, do you believe in-love at first sight?'' - Cassie: ''It saves a lot of time.''
Holly Reed (Mia Farrow) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ''My ex-husband and I fell in love-at-first-sight . Maybe I should have taken a second look.''
Alexander Midnight (Fisher Stevens) to Amanda (Sandra Bullock) in When the Party''s Over (1991): ''When I saw you earlier I knew that we had been together before. That''s what love-at-first-sight is. It''s a reconnection of two old entertwined souls.''
George (Roland Young) meeting Nell Kenner (Leila Hyams) in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935): - George: ''I say, do you believe in-love at first sight?'' - Nell: ''No. Do you?'' - George: ''No. That''s why I''d like to stay for a while, if you don''t mind.''
Aunt Carrie (Fay Holden) and Jeff Carter (Eddie Acuff) in Guns of the Pecos (1937): - Aunt Carrie: ''Do you believe in-love at first sight?'' - Jeff Carter: ''Yeah, I reckon I do , but I don''t see very well.''
Oliver Webb (Walter Connelly) and Owen O''Malley (Roscoe Karns) speaking of director Oscar Jaffe''s (John Barrymore) obsession with stage star Lily Garland/Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) in Twentieth Century (1934): - Oliver:''Do you know how much he paid for long distance calls to Hollywood last year? Eighteen hundred bucks! And she hung-up-on him every time.'' - Owen:''In some Humpty Dumpty way that was true-love .''
Duffy (Gene Wilder) and Dr. Benjamin (David Margulies) in Funny About Love (1990): - Duffy: ''You want me to put some sperm into this little cup?'' - Doctor: ''That''s right, Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Wait a minute! You know , you make this sound easy, but I''ve never done this before.'' - Doctor: ''Come, come , Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Twice!? You want me to do-it twice. We''ll be here all day.''
Charles (Timothy Hutton) who broke his engagement to Kate (Meg Ryan) after falling head-over-heels in-love-with a French girl in Paris in French Kiss (1995): - Charles: ''I feel so totally, horribly guilty.'' - Kate: ''Oh, listen, don''t feel guilty because then I''ll start feeling guilty that I made you feel guilty, and... You know , actually, that was the old me. Just feel guilty. Swim in it till your fingers get all pruny.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''I went to a brothel once in my life . I got hiccups. It was over like... (snaps his fingers) that.''
Duffy (Gene Wilder) and Dr. Benjamin (David Margulies) in Funny About Love (1990): - Duffy: ''You want me to put some sperm into this little cup?'' - Doctor: ''That''s right, Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Wait a minute! You know , you make this sound easy, but I''ve never done this before.'' - Doctor: ''Come, come , Mr. Bergman.'' - Duffy: ''Twice!? You want me to do-it twice. We''ll be here all day.''
Countess Alexandrovna (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Alex: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris : ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) to Annie (Diane Keaton) in Annie Hall (1977): ''Don''t knock masturbation! It''s sex with someone I love .'' Off-screen Woody Allen also said: ''I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it''s fantastic.''
Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant) and his wife Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Elizabeth McGovern) in the mini TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998): - Sir Percy : ''The poets tell us love is blind .'' - Lady Blakeney: ''The miracle of marriage opens our eyes .''
Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing: ''Love is blind with sex in mind, but don''t be resigned, it always takes two of a kind.''
Merlin (Nicol Williamson) in Excalibur (1981): ''You''re not listening. Your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind .''
Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) and John Milton (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1997) - Kevin Lomax: 'What about love?' - John Milton: 'Overrated. Biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.'
Monty Woolley (as himself) to Linda Porter (Alexis Smith) in Night and Day (1946): 'Advice to the lovelorn isn't quite my department, Linda. Too dangerous. Love can be a delight, a dilemma, a disease or a disaster.'
Sheila Kingston's (Rosie O'Donnell) voice over commentary at the end of Exit to Eden (1994): 'So, what did I learn from this case? No matter what your sexual-preference is true-love is still the ultimate fantasy.'
Sam Wheat's (Patrick Swayze) farewell words to Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) before ascending into the light in Ghost (1990): 'It's amazing, Molly! The love inside, you take-it with you.'
Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): 'Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is we, with our capacity to love , who give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even find joy from simple things like their family , their work , and from the hope that future generations might understand more.'
Leonard Cummings (Peter Frechette) to his younger brother Charles (Jon Cryer) in No Small Affair (1984): 'Sex has nothing to do with love . Sex washes off .'
Jean Howard (Ida Lupino) and Lt. Don Mallory (William Prince) in Pillow to Post (1945): - Jean: 'Love is a beautiful thing .' - Don: 'I get two hours of it every Saturday night at a movie. That's enough for me.'
Marlene Dietrich, as Erica Von Schluetow, to Jean Arthur as Phoebe Frost in A Foreign Affair (1948): 'You know this game of love , if you want to take the advice of an old gambler, some poeple are lucky at-it , some people are jinx; you shouldn't even sit down at the table.'
Connie (Kelly Lynch) to Joe Casella (William Baldwin) in Three of Hearts (1993): 'Love is like some fucking force of nature. You can't trick it ... you sure can't control it . That's the great part, that's the ride . Enjoy it .'
Nathalie De Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) in The Moderns (1988): 'Don't confuse sex and love , Mr. Hart. It will spoil both of 'em for you.'
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): 'Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.'
Beth (Kim Greist) reading the 'cryptic' last lines of Larry's (Billy Crystal) novel in Throw Momma Off the Train (1987); 'Hate makes you impotent . Love makes you crazy. Somewhere in-between , you can survive.'
Emily (Susan Sarandon) and Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) in The Buddy System (1984): - Emily: 'Something is missing when you're not in-love .' - Joe: 'Yeah, fear and desperation.'
Kevin (Keanu Reeves) and John/Satan (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1998): - Kevin: 'What about love?' - John: 'Overrated. Biochemically, no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.'
Georges Duroy/Bel Ami (George Sanders) in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947): 'Love is a subject which always interests women perhaps because in discussing it one passes so readily from the general to the particular.'
Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and Mata Hari (Greta Garbo) in Mata Hari (1932): - Lt. Alexis: 'I love you as one adores sacred things. ' - Mata Hari: 'What sacred things?' - Lt. Alexis: 'God, country , honor, you.' - Mata Hari: 'I come last?' - Lt. Alexis: 'No, you come first , before anything.'
Kevin (Michael Keaton) and Julia (Geena Davis) in Speechless (1994): - Kevin: 'Shall we speak the unspoken language of love?' - Julia: 'You mean the kind only dogs can hear?' - Kevin: 'Yes, the very same.' They jump under the covers and start woof-woofing and...
Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont) and Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx) in Cocoanuts (1929): - Mrs. Potter: 'I don't think you'd love me if I were poor.' - Mr. Hammer: 'I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut.'
Soviet envoy Lena Yakushova 'Ninotchka' (Greta Garbo) to French Count Leon Bressart (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939): 'Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary, biological, or shall we say chemical, process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it .'
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo) to Armand Duval (Robert Taylor) in Camille (1936): 'I've loved you as much as I could love . If that wasn't enough I'm not to blame. We don't make our own hearts. '
Tillie Seltzer (Carol Burnett) and husband Pete (Walter Matthau) in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972): - Tillie: 'When I think of all the times I was so irritated with you yet, right now, I don't think I ever loved you more.' - Pete: 'Well, love without irritation is just lust .'
Wayne (Dick Foran) and Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) in My Little Chickadee (1940): - Wayne: 'Spring is the time for-love .' - Belle: 'What's the matter with the rest of the year?'
Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) walking in the park with Louise (Janet Margolin) in Take the Money and Run (1969): 'All I know is my heart was really pounding and I felt a funny tingling all over. I don't know . I was either in-love or I had smallpox.'
Sung by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): 'When love goes wrong, nothing goes right. Bees won't buzz , fish won't bite , clock won't strike, a match won't light .'
The cynical Squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to blacksmith Plog (Ake Fridell) who is looking for his unfaithfull wife in The Seventh Seal (1957): 'Haven't you learned by now that love is just another word for lust?'
George, Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) to Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) in The Three Musketeers (1948): 'I understand nothing except that I love you, that the earth is small and that-there is no room on it for you and me apart.'
Charley Partana (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): 'I look at you, I see what I want to see . That's what love is.'
Dotty Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) voice over intro of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994): 'Into love and out again. Thus I went and thus I go.'
Stella (Marilyn Sokol) to Gloria (Goldie Hawn) in Foul Play (1978): 'If they say "I like you" it's not so bad . It's when they say "I love you" that's when you gotta watch out .'
Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) to Ramada (Valeria Golino) in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993): ''I do love you. I tried to forget you but no matter what I do , your face is always on the tip of my tongue .''
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) describing Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley) in The Naked Gun (1988): ''Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you''d kinda love to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket.''
Dotty Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) voice over intro to Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994): ''Into love and out again. Thus I went and thus I go.''
Teenager Tracy (Mariel Hemingway) and her middle-aged boyfriend Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) in Manhattan (1979): - Tracy: ''I told you before, I think I''m in-love-with you.'' - Isaac: ''Hey, don''t get carried away, okay?''
Cathy (Doris Day) and Connie (Audrey Meadows) in That Touch of Mink (1962): - Cathy Timberleg: ''He didn''t say he was in-love .'' - Connie Emerson: ''How could he? It''s like having a baby , the man is always the last to know .''
Brick Pollit (Paul Newman) to his father Big Daddy (Burl Ives) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958): ''You don''t know what love is. To you, it''s just another four-letter-word .''
Countess (Olga Georges-Picot) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): - Countess Alexandrovna: ''You are the greatest lover I ever had.'' - Boris Grushenko: ''Well, I practice a lot when I''m alone.''
State prisoner Rosco (Fred Ward) enquires about his wife from his mother (Kathleen Freeman) in The Naked Gun 33 1/3. The Final Insult (1994): - Rosco: ''Ma. How''s Tanya?'' - Mother: ''Tanya''s the same. Milky, creamy skin , pouting red lips , firm buttocks , ample breasts, ears you just love to stick your tongue into...'' - Rosco: ''Ma. Please. I''m gonna get guy-cramps if you keep this up .''
Merlin (Nicol Williamson) in Excalibur (1981): ''You''re not listening. Your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind .''
The Wizard (Frank Morgan) to Hickory, the Tin Woodsman (Jack Haley) in The Wizard of Oz (1939): - (a) ''Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.'' - (b) ''And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Lena O''connor (Thelma Ritter) to Samantha ''Sam'' Blake (Joanne Woodward) in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''One thing a fellah doesn''t want from a girl is surprises. Forty percent of all divorce cases start on honeymoon night.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman), a psychoanalyst, and Anthony Edwardes/John Ballantine (Gregory Peck) in Spellbound (1945): ''People fall in-love , as they put it , because they respond to a certain hair coloring, or vocal tones, or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.''
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Mr. Esmond in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): ''I won''t let myself fall in-love-with a man who won''t trust me no matter what I might do .''
Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) to Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) in The Natural (1984): ''I''m not waiting for true-love to come along, Roy. I never have. I''ve known a million guys. ''
Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) walking in the park with Louise (Janet Margolin) in Take the Money and Run (1969): ''All I know is, my heart was really pounding and I felt a funny tingling all over. I don''t know . I was either in-love or I had smallpox.''
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947): - Richard : 'It's awful what a woman can do to a man . Look at history: Caesar and Cleopatra.' - Susan: 'Napoleon and Josephine.' - Richard : 'All of them. Behind every defeated man there's a frustrated love .'
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947): - Richard : ''It''s awful what a woman can do to a man . Look at history: Caesar and Cleopatra.'' - Susan: ''Napoleon and Josephine.'' - Richard : ''All of them. Behind every defeated man there''s a frustrated love .''
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947): - Richard : 'It's awful what a woman can do to a man . Look at history: Caesar and Cleopatra.' - Susan: 'Napoleon and Josephine.' - Richard : 'All of them. Behind every defeated man there's a frustrated love .'
Maggie (Meg Ryan) about her ex-boyfriend in Addicted to Love (1997): ''You know Sam, most French men are small. But not this guy . It''s like Godzilla''s tail! He could take out all of Tokyo with that thing!''
Abigail Parker (Dorothy Malone) to Rick Todd (Dean Martin) in Artists and Models (1955): ''I like being kissed, I love it . Under the mistletoe, in the dark , early in the morning, lunchtime, tea time, cocktail time, any time... but I don''t want to be kissed by you.''
Banjo (Jimmy Durante) to the nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942): ''Ah! My beautiful one. (...) I love you madly. (...) Kiss me! I can feel the hot blood pumping through your varicosed veins.''
James Bood (Roger Moore) and Jenny Flex (Alison Doody) in A View to a Kill (1985): - James Bond: ''I take-it you spend quite a lot of time in-the-saddle .'' - Jenny Flex: ''Yes, I love an early ride .'' - James Bond: ''I''m an early riser myself.''
Kevin (Michael Keaton) and Julia (Geena Davis) in Speechless (1994): - Kevin: ''Shall we speak the unspoken language of love?'' - Julia: ''You mean the kind only dogs can hear?''
Laurence Shames. Sunburn: ''A woman you really liked looked prettier after you''d been to bed with her; a woman you didn''t, did not. This was one of the ways a man knew if he might''ve been falling in-love .''
Call-in radio show ''Doctor'' Shirlee Kenyan (Dolly Parton) to one of her callers in Straight Talk (1992): ''Like my daddy always used to say: a bird and a fish can fall in-love , but where do they make a home?''
Birdie (Sandra Bullock) in Hope Floats (1998): ''People fall in-love . They fall right back out . It happens all the time.''
Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) crossing herself in Mermaids (1990): ''Please, God! Don''t let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things. ''
Nina (Susan Anspach) and Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): - Nina: 'We could live-together for a while.' - Stephen: 'The trouble with living together is that you're always thinking when are you gonna stop living together and get married and really start living together.'
''Females are simple, biological structures. Their bodies pay very little attention to their mind.'' Beryl Sigman (Agnes Moorehead) thinking of nurse Ann (Gene Tierney) in-love-with a priest (Humphrey Bogart) in The Left Hand of God (1955)
Daid Bracket (Nick Nolte) in I Love Trouble (1994) introduces himself to a woman in a bar : - ''Hi. I''m David.'' - ''I''m horny .''
Rose (Laura Dern) to Buddy (Lukas Haas) in Rambling Rose (1991): 'Sex don't mean a thing to me, Buddy. It ain't nothing but a mosquito bite . Buddy, I'm gonna tell you a secret. Girls don't want sex , girls want love .'
Frank Broderick (Henry Fonda) and Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) in Sex and the Single Girl (1964): - Frank: 'What do you call-it when you hate the woman you love?' - Bob: 'A wife .'
Harry Anders (Michael Caine) and Stacey Mensdorf (Sean Young) in Blue Ice (1992): - Harry: 'I knew a girl like you once and I felt the same way about her as I feel about you. I didn't know whether to love her or hate her.' - Stacey: 'So what did you do?' - Harry: 'A little of both.'
Lena (Thelma Ritter) to Samantha (Joanne Woodward) in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''One thing a fellah doesn''t want from a girl is surprises. 40% of all divorce cases start on honeymoon night.''
Lena (Thelma Ritter) to Samantha (Joanne Woodward) in A New Kind of Love (1963): ''One thing a fellah doesn''t want from a girl is surprises. 40% of all divorce cases start on honeymoon night.''
Maggie (Meg Ryan) about her ex-boyfriend in Addicted to Love (1997): ''You know Sam, most French men are small. But not this guy . It''s like Godzilla''s tail! He could take out all of Tokyo with that thing!''
Oscar Wilde: ''"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect... It is in this century misunderstood... and on account of it I am placed where I am now.'' (Statement made during his 1st trial: April 30, 1895)
The three biddies talking about Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) in Doc Hollywod (1991): ''Maybe he ain''t found his Adam''s rib yet. Maybe he indulges in the love that dare not speaks its name.''
Robin (Cary Elwes) and Marian (Amy Yasbeck) in Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993): - Robin: ''Darling, I''m ready for that kiss now.'' - Marian: ''But first , I must warn you. It could only be a kiss for I am a virgin and could never go-all-the-way .'' - Robin: ''But...'' - Marian: ''Unless, of course, I were married . Or if a man pledged his endless love to me. Or if I knew that he desperately cared for me. Or if he were really cute .''
Robin (Cary Elwes) and Marian (Amy Yasbeck) in Robin Hood. Men in Tights (1993): - Robin: ''Darling, I''m ready for that kiss now.'' - Marian: ''But first , I must warn you. It could only be a kiss for I am a virgin and could never go-all-the-way .'' - Robin: ''But...'' - Marian: ''Unless, of course, I were married . Or if a man pledged his endless love to me. Or if I knew that he desperately cared for me. Or if he were really cute .''
Finn (Winona Ryder) to Marianna (Alfre Woodard) in How to Make an American Quilt (1995): 'You see , what they don't tell us is that marriage is this anachronistic institution created for the sole convenience of the father who needs to pass off his daughters to the care of another man . Like 'here, here, she eats too much. Take her off my hands', you know? But now, now that we've gotten our independence, that we earn our own livings, there's no purpose to being someone's wife . Why can't we love as many people as we want in a lifetime?'
The Council Chief (Tony Jay), consulting The Monchine, a dictionary, to Celeste (Kim Basinger) in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988): 'The Monchine 40 says: Marriage is this. He goes off to fight the Turks and you put on a lock . (2nd definition.) Marriage is this: You cook and clean and bring him martinis. (3rd definition.) The modern marriage . There are no rules or responsabilities but if he does something wrong you can set him on fire while he sleeps and go on a talk show where everybody will forgive you and love you.'
Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): ''Sex comes from the Latin secare, "to cut or divide," and we first used the word to designate the two major categories of humanity we have come to know and love as male and female. (...) We later used the word sex not only for dividing the sexes, but to refer to qualities of being male or female. Over time we assigned specific attributes to each category. These distinctions were dutifully recorded in the esteemed OED, making-it all very official. The male was described as "the better" and "the sterner" sex ; the female, as "the fairer," "the gentler," "the softer," and "the devout" sex . Women were also called "the second" sex . For a period of time between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when people spoke of "the sex ," they had women in mind.''
Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to the Soviet enjoy Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) in Ninotchka (1939): 'Love isn't so simple, Ninotchka. Ninotchka, why do doves bill and coo? Why do snails, the coldest of all creatures, circle interminably around each other? Why do moths fly hundred of miles to find their mates? Why do flowers slowly open their petals? Oh, Ninotchka, Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight symptom of the divine passion . A general warmth, a strange heaviness in your limbs, a burning of the lips that isn't thirst but something a thousand times more tantalizing, more exalting than thirst.'
Dick Pepper (Gig Young) explaining to his Augie Pool (Richard Widmark) the the guilt of the philandering husband in The Tunnel of Love (1958): - Dick: ''Every time it''s over I have a terrific sense of guilt.'' - Augie: ''Oh, but you wait until it''s over, hum?'' - Dick: ''Sure. I feel I deserve this guilt. When I don''t have it I''m uncomfortable so I try to recapture the guilt by chasing around.'' - Augia: ''So why do you keep chasing around then if it''s that much trouble?'' - Dick: ''I''ve got to get back to that feeling of guilt. (...) I have to suffer for chasing around.''
Elaine Navazio (Sally Kellerman) and Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin) in Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972). Elaine is Barney''s first of three unsuccessful attempts at middle-age, extra-marital sex . - Elaine:''Is it possible that you''re actually as cold as you sound?'' - Barney:''I need gloves to take off my underwear .'' - Elaine: ''Flippant, wise and cold . You don''t permit yourself to be honest and open for a minute, do you?'' - Barney:''Barney, I''m gonna give you one free hint so the afternoon isn''t a total write off . If you want undying love and romance , take a guitar and go to Spain. I''m leaving for good. My peek has ebbed.'' - Elaine: ''Cold, callous and unemotional.'' - Barney:''Those are my attorneys. You know where to get in touch with me.''
Alabama Whitman''s (Patricia Arquette) voice over introduction in True Romance (1993):''I had to come all-the-way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida, to Motor City, Detroit to find my true-love . If you gave me a million years to ponder I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together, and to this day the events that followed all seem like a distant dream. But the dream was real, and was to change our lives forever. I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty? And he''d say: That''s the way it goes, but don''t forget, it goes-the-other-way too. That''s the way romance is. Usually that''s the way it goes but every once in a while it goes-the-other-way too.''
Dick Pepper (Gig Young) explaining to his friend Augie Pool (Richard Widmark) the vicious-circle of guilt of the philandering husband in The Tunnel of Love (1958): - Dick: ''Every time it''s over I have a terrific sense of guilt.'' - Augie: ''Oh, but you wait until it''s over, hum?'' - Dick: ''Sure. I feel I deserve this guilt. When I don''t have it I''m uncomfortable so I try to recapture the guilt by chasing around.'' - Augie: ''So why do you keep chasing around then if it''s that much trouble?'' - Dick: ''I''ve got to get back to that feeling of guilt. (...) I have to suffer for chasing around.''


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