Titanic Love Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Titanic.

Quote #1

ROSE: Is that the going rate for saving the woman you love?

Rose isn't impressed with Cal's attempt to thank Jack for saving her life by just tossing money at him. For Cal, of course, love is pretty transactional, so money is the perfect way to show love.

Quote #2

CAL: You know, there's nothing I couldn't give you. There's nothing I'd deny you…if you would not deny me. Oh, open your heart to me, Rose.

Again, Cal is talking about matters of the "heart," but he's making it all about the stuff he could give her—not feelings.

Quote #3

JACK: Do you love him?

ROSE: Pardon me?

JACK: Do you love him?

ROSE: You're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking me this.

Jack asks what he thinks is a natural question, after hearing about Rose's nerves regarding marriage. However, it strikes a nerve with Rose.

Quote #4

ROSE: I think you must have had a love affair with her.

Rose is assuming that Jack was romantically involved with one of his models because she appears more than once. However, it turns out that Jack just liked drawing her hands, and they had no romantic involvement at all. Jack is a lot more nuanced than Rose assumes.

Quote #5

ROSE: My heart was pounding the whole time. It was the most erotic moment of my life. Up till then at least.

Here, Rose is describing when she posed nude for Jack while wearing the Heart of the Ocean—Cal's token of his own "love." She and Jack haven't formally cemented their own love with words, but this moment is clearly about Rose taking back her own heart and thumbing her nose at Cal. By commissioning the drawing and then leaving it for Cal with a note, she's basically throwing her disdain for him (and his heart—diamond or otherwise) in his face.

Quote #6

ROSE: I love you, Jack.

Toward the end of the movie, Rose finally utters those three little words that every boy freezing to death in the ocean wants to hear: I love you. Unfortunately, Jack actually doesn't want to hear it, since he believes this is Rose saying her goodbyes.