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| How to Make an American Quilt (1995) | Marianne: Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. |
| Jerry Maguire (1996) | Dicky Fox: I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. |
| Gandhi (1982) | Gandhi: Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always. |
| Flubber (1997) | Phillip Brainard: I love you with every cell, with every atom. I love you on a subatomic level. |
| First Knight (1995) | Arthur: I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in pieces. |
| Don Juan DeMarco (1995) | Don Juan: There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. |
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Fools Rush In (1997)
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Isabel: Love is a gift...not an obligation. |
| The Last Unicorn (1982) | Haggard: Love is slowing you down, my lady. I will catch you at last, if you love much more. |
| Dead Man Walking (1995) | Sister Helen Prejean: I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you. |
| Creator (1985) | Boris: You know, Harry, I'm still trying to find the big picture but I keep missing it because I am so in love with Barbara that nothing else matters. |
| Conspiracy Theory (1997) | Jerry Fletcher: Love gives you wings. It makes you fly. I don't even call it love. I call it Geronimo. When you're in love, you'll jump right from the top of the Empire State and you won't care, screaming "Geronimo" the whole way down. I love her so bad, I just... Whoa, she wrecks me. I'd die for her. |
| Conan the Barbarian (1981) | King Osric: There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throneroom becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
| Casino (1995) | Sam "Ace" Rothstein: When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? |
| Calamity Jane (1953) | Calamity Jane: At last my heart's an open door / And my secret love's no secret anymore. |
| Barbarella (1968) | Pygar: An angel does not make love, an angel is love. |
| The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) | Victor "Gaucho" Ribera: To give truth to a performance, there's nothing like love. |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) | Pepe: Applause may be good for the moment, but love is everlasting. |
| 'Til There Was You (1997) | Gwen: Love's cruel, Love's a flirt. Love has places to go and people to hurt. |
| "Star Trek" (1966) | Kirk: "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you." |
| Impromptu (1991) | George Sand: I am not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love. That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively and steadfastly. |
| The In Crowd (1988) | Perry Parker: You know I... I talk to my teens about love, and I always say "This crazy thing called love, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry...but hey, man, it's what makes the world go 'round." Now, dying for love? Whoa! That's too momentous! I mean it's good for the books, but not for teens. Now, on the other hand, there's nothing wrong with a teen king or a teen queen feeling like you could die for love. That way, you'd cherish every dance and you'd never waste a kiss. |
| In a Lonely Place (1950) | Dixon Steele: I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. |
| It's Love I'm After (1937) | Joyce Arden: You're going to have love for breakfast, love for luncheon and love for dinner. Sweet, sugary, sticky worship. You're going to have a steady diet of it till you're ready to scream - you billygoat! |
| Laura (1944) | Waldo Lydecker: Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death. |
| Love at Large (1990) | Harry Dobbs: The one who loves, waits. |
| A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | Abraham Farlan: You claim you love her.
Peter D. Carter: I do love her! Abraham Farlan: Can you prove it? Peter D. Carter: Well give me time, sir. Fifty years will do. Abraham Farlan: But can you prove it? Peter D. Carter: Well, can a starving man prove he's hungry except by eating? Abraham Farlan: Would you die for her? Peter D. Carter: I would, but, er, I'd rather live. |
| A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | Abraham Farlan: You hardly know him. How can
you think you love him?
June: But I do love him. Abraham Farlan: Nonsense my child. Doctor Frank Reeves: I object. Council will withdraw the expression. June: It's all right Frank. he's right. There's no sense in love. |
| Moonstruck (1987) | Ronny: Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed! |
| Movie Movie (1978) | Joey Popchik: With the woman that you love at your side to stand behind you, a man can move mountains with his bare heart |
| The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Rev. Harry Powell when he notices John staring at the words "love" and "hate" tattooed across his knuckles: Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I'll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t'other. Now watch 'em! Old brother left hand, left hand he's a fighting, and it looks like love's a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love's a winning! Yessirree! It's love that's won, and old left hand hate is down for the count! |
| Planet of the Apes (1968) | George Taylor: Imagine me needing someone. Back on Earth I never did. Oh, there were women. Lots of women. Lots of love-making but no love. You see, that was the kind of world we'd made. So I left, because there was no one to hold me there. |
| Chasing Amy (1997) | Holden McNeil: I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. And it's not because you're unattainable. I love you. Very simple, very truly. You're the epitome of every attribute and quality I've ever looked for in another person. I know you think of me as just a friend, and that crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you'd ever consider. But I had to say it. I can't take it anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended - but I had to say it, because I've never felt this before, and I like who I am because of it. And if bringing it to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But I couldn't allow another day to go by without getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And I'll accept that. But I know some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, that means you feel something too. All I ask is that you not dismiss that - at least for ten seconds - and try to dwell in it. Alyssa, there isn't another soul on this fucking planet who's ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it's there between you and me. You can't deny that. And even if we never speak again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which - while I do appreciate it - I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of. |
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Braveheart (1995)
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William Wallace: "I will love you my whole life. You and no other." |
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First Knight (1995)
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Arthur: "Marry
the king, but love the man."
Guenivere: "I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and heart and soul." |
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