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These quotes kill two birds with one stone: use them to ace essays and woo your crush. Click on any love quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"A guy like you should wear a warning."Source: "Toxic" | Speaker: Britney Spears
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"Adrian!"Source: Rocky | Speaker: Rocky Balboa
"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone..."Source: "Ain't No Sunshine" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms | Author: Truman Capote
"And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet.""Source: Love Story | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."Source: The Fault in our Stars | Author: John Green
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Because I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! Worms!"Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Chris McConnell
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—"Source: Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art | Author: John Keats
"Buongiorno, principessa!"Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."Source: Luke 10:30, 33-34 | Author: Luke
"Butts."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."Source: Friday Night Lights | Speaker: Coach Eric Taylor
"Come to me in the silence of the night."Source: Echo | Author: Christina Rossetti
"Come up and see me sometime."Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Elizabeth, I'm coming!"Source: Sanford and Son | Speaker: Fred Sanford
"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round."Source: Fat Bottomed Girls | Speaker: Queen
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Rhett Butler
"God speed your love to me."Source: "Unchained Melody" | Speaker: The Righteous Brothers
"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch
"Goodnight, John Boy."Source: The Waltons | Speaker: The Waltons
"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Greed is good."Source: Wall Street | Speaker: Gordon Gekko
"Have a good life."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Sam Malone
"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Hello, gorgeous."Source: Funny Girl | Speaker: Fanny Brice
"Here's looking at you, kid."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"Hoke, you're my best friend."Source: Driving Miss Daisy | Speaker: Miss Daisy
"Hold me closer, tiny dancer."Source: Tiny Dancer | Speaker: Elton John
"Hold me closer, Tony Danza."Source: "Tiny Dancer" | Speaker: Elton John
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."Source: How do I love Thee (Sonnet 43) | Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"How you doin'?"Source: Friends | Speaker: Joey Tribbiani
"Hurt no living thing."Source: Hurt No Living Thing | Author: Christina Rossetti
"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Speaker: Lorelei Lee
"I am Groot."Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot
"I came in like a wrecking ball"Source: "Wrecking Ball" | Speaker: Miley Cyrus
"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"I can't live with or without you."Source: "With or Without You" | Speaker: U2
"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me"Source: "As Long As You Love Me" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys
"I don't even want a boyfriend."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes
"I don't think you ready for this jelly."Source: "Bootylicious" | Speaker: Destiny's Child
"I drove all night to get to you."Source: I Drove All Night | Speaker: Cyndi Lauper, Roy Orbison
"I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field."Source: Feel So Close | Speaker: Calvin Harris
"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."Source: Say Anything | Speaker: Lloyd Dobler
"I got all the riches, baby, one man can claim"Source: My Girl | Speaker: The Temptations
"I got you, babe."Source: I Got You Babe | Speaker: Sonny Bono and Cher
"I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."Source: A Place in the Sun | Speaker: George Eastman
"I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."Source: Hannah and Her Sisters | Speaker: Mickey
"I had to go see about a girl."Source: Good Will Hunting | Speaker: Will Hunting
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I hope you don't mind that I put down in words…"Source: Your Song | Speaker: Elton John
"I just can't get you outta my head."Source: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Speaker: Kylie Minogue
"I know who I want to take me home"Source: "Closing Time" | Speaker: Semisonic
"I like big butts and I cannot lie."Source: Baby Got Back | Speaker: Sir Mix-a-Lot
"I love his Cinema Italiano."Source: Nine | Speaker: Stephanie
"I love lamp."Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Brick Tamland
"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"I love you more than a wasp can sting."Source: To My Valentine | Author: Ogden Nash
"I love you only because it's you the one I love"Source: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | Author: Pablo Neruda
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."Source: Manhattan | Speaker: Isaac Davis
"I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zig ha."Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: The Spice Girls
"I want the fairy tale."Source: Pretty Woman | Speaker: Vivian Ward
"I will always love you."Source: I Will Always Love You | Speaker: Dolly Parton (and Whitney Houston)
"I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world."Source: Barbie Girl | Speaker: Aqua
"I'm a genie in a bottle, baby."Source: "Genie in a Bottle" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott
"I'm everything I am because you loved me."Source: Because You Loved Me | Speaker: Celine Dion
"I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you."Source: "Earth Angel" | Speaker: The Penguins
"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"If suddenlySource: If You Forget Me | Author: Pablo Neruda
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you."
"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: Spice Girls
"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
"It don't matter if you're black or white."Source: Black or White | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"It's a nice day for a white wedding."Source: White Wedding (Part 1) | Speaker: Billy Idol
"It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you."Source: Ghost | Speaker: Sam Wheat
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones
"It's October 3rd."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Cady Heron
"It's something about the way you look tonight."Source: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John
"Jane. Tarzan."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan
"Keep me hangin' on."Source: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" | Speaker: The Supremes
"Killing me softly…"Source: "Killing Me Softly With His Song" | Speaker: Roberta Flack
"Let's get it on."Source: Let's Get It On | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you."Source: "Yellow" | Speaker: Coldplay
"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford
"Love is a battlefield."Source: "Love is a Battlefield" | Speaker: Pat Benatar
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."Source: Love Story | Speaker: Jenny
"Love the sinner and hate the sin."Source: Letters of Saint Augustine (#211) | Author: Augustine of Hippo
"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney
"Me, Tarzan. You, Jane."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen
"My biological clock is ticking like this."Source: My Cousin Vinny | Speaker: Mona Lisa Vito
"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley
"My mama told me, "You better shop around.""Source: "Shop Around" | Speaker: The Miracles
"Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half."Source: Ninotchka | Speaker: Count Leon d'Algout
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."Source: Dirty Dancing | Speaker: Johnny Castle
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Oh Philadelphia freedom, shine on me, I love you."Source: "Philadelphia Freedom" | Speaker: Elton John
"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."Source: Now, Voyager | Speaker: Charlotte Vale
"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri
"Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of your world."Source: Part of Your World | Speaker: Ariel
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love."Source: Marginalia | Author: Billy Collins
"Play it again, Sam."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Ilsa Lund
"Play it, Sam."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Ilsa Lund
"Pour some sugar on me."Source: Pour Some Sugar on Me | Speaker: Def Leppard
"Pretty woman, give your smile to me."Source: Oh, Pretty Woman | Speaker: Roy Orbison
"Pretty young thing"Source: "P.Y.T." | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae
"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen."Source: "Dancing Queen" | Speaker: ABBA
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."Source: "A Girl I Knew" | Author: J.D. Salinger
"She's my person."Source: Grey's Anatomy | Speaker: Dr. Cristina Yang
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Snap out of it!"Source: Moonstruck | Speaker: Loretta Castorini
"So you wanna play with magic?"Source: "Dark Horse" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."Source: The Fault in Our Stars | Author: John Green
"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler
"Sweet Caroline! Ba, ba, ba!"Source: "Sweet Caroline" | Speaker: Neil Diamond
"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast."Source: Beauty and the Beast | Speaker: Mrs. Potts
"That's a dealbreaker!"Source: 30 Rock | Speaker: Liz Lemon
"That's the way love goes."Source: "That's the Way Love Goes" | Speaker: Janet Jackson
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man."Source: Son of a Preacher Man | Speaker: Dusty Springfield
"The richest man in town."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Harry Bailey
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando."Source: Fernando | Speaker: ABBA
"There's no place like home."Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy
"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."Source: Crime and Punishment | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen
"Tin roof...rusted!"Source: Love Shack | Speaker: The B-52's
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda
"Under the boardwalk, down by the sea..."Source: "Under the Boardwalk" | Speaker: The Drifters
"Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay?"Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Inga
"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"We all need somebody to lean on."Source: "Lean on Me" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"We'll always have Paris."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Well, nobody's perfect."Source: Some Like It Hot | Speaker: Osgood Fielding III
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"What about love?"Source: "What About Love" | Speaker: Heart
"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?"Source: "Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Speaker: Elvis Costello
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there…"Source: "Drive" | Speaker: Incubus
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Harry Burns
"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales
"Whenever, wherever"Source: "Whenever, Wherever" | Speaker: Shakira
"Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad."Source: Let's Stay Together | Speaker: Al Green
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou
"Will you accept this rose?"Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You gotta kiss the girl."Source: Kiss the Girl | Speaker: Sebastian the Crab
"You had me at hello."Source: Jerry Maguire | Speaker: Dorothy Boyd
"You just put your lips together and blow."Source: To Have and Have Not | Speaker: Slim
"You make me feel like I'm a living teenage dream."Source: "Teenage Dream" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"You make me want to be a better man."Source: As Good As It Gets | Speaker: Melvin Udall
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen
"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: George Bailey
"You're a heartbreaker."Source: Heartbreaker | Speaker: Pat Benatar
"You're motoring. What's your price for flight?"Source: "Sister Christian" | Speaker: Night Ranger
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."Source: Body Heat | Speaker: Matty Walker
"You're so money and you don't even know it."Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker
"Your body is a wonderland."Source: "Your Body is a Wonderland" | Speaker: John Mayer
"Your love keeps lifting me higher."Source: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Speaker: Jackie Wilson