Quotes about Love

Scarlett: If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

- Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Peter Warne: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.

- Clark Gable (as Peter Warne) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: You sure you don't love her?
Nick Arden: The moment I saw you downstairs, I knew...
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, go on, I bet you say that to all your wives.

- Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Joe Carter: I love you Connie. Did you hear what I said?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Yes.
Joe Carter: Well, if you feel the same way would you tell me?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Would you stay right where you are?
Joe Carter: Yes.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: I love you more than anything in the world.

- Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Rhett Butler: There's one thing I do know... and that is that 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, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
Scarlett: (struggles) Don't hold me like that!
Rhett Butler: (holds her tighter) Scarlett! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Lady Marian Fitzswalter: And when my real guardian King Richard finds out about your being in love with me...
Robin Hood: I know, he'll make me court jester.
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: He won't. He'll stick your funny head on London's Gate.
Robin Hood: A very fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.

- Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Tell me: when you are in love, is it hard to think of anybody but one person?
Bess: Yes, indeed, m'lady, and sometimes it's a bit of trouble sleeping.
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: I know! But it's a nice kind of not sleeping!

- Olivia de Havilland (as Maid Marian) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Bess: Now, tell me, m'lady: when he looks at you, do you feel a kind of pricky feeling, like goosey pimples running all up and down your spine?
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: [blushes]
Bess: Then there's not a doubt of it!
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: A doubt of what?
Robin Hood: [eavesdropping from the window] That you're in love!

- Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

John Cedar: Your Honor, this is absurd. The woman's obviously in love with him.
Babe Bennett: What's that got to do with it?
John Cedar: Well, you are in love with him, aren't you?
Babe Bennett: What's that got to do with it?
John Cedar: You ARE, aren't you?
Babe Bennett: Yes!

- Jean Arthur (as Babe Bennett) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Jamie: Well, if you're in love with him, you're too big a fool for a man like me.
Lady Margaret Denby: You black-hearted bully! What do you know about men or women or anyrhing human? All you can do is shoot and kill and prey on women with your beastly sense of slobbering at the site of anything fine.
Jamie: I repeat my lass -- you will have to choose between us -- and very soon too!

- Tyrone Power (as Jamie Waring) in The Black Swan (1942)