Quotes about Love

Sugarpuss O'Shea: [about Potts] Yes, I love him. I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. He looks like a giraffe, and I love him.

- Barbara Stanwyck (as Sugarpuss O'Shea) in Ball of Fire (1941)

Duke Pastrami: [Giving Sugarpuss O'Shea a message from Joe Lilac] He sends ya' a love message. He says to tell ya' he gets more bang outta' you than any dame he ever knew.

- Dan Duryea (as Duke Pastrami) in Ball of Fire (1941)

Eleanor Gehrig: Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you.

- Teresa Wright (as Eleanor Twitchell) in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Robert Jordan: Are you afraid?
Maria: Not now. I love you, Roberto. Always remember. I love you as I loved my father and mother, as I love our unborn children, as I love what I love most in the world, and I love you more. Always remember.
Robert Jordan: I'll remember.
Maria: Nothing can ever part us now, can it?
Robert Jordan: Nothing, Maria.

- Gary Cooper (as Robert Jordan) in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Pilar: Look I am ugly. Yet one can have a feeling here [points to her heart] that blinds a man while he loves you. He thinks you are beautiful. And one day for no reason at all he sees you ugly as you really are. And he is not blind anymore. Then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you - and you lose your man and your feeling. Then one day the feeling, that idiotic feeling that you are beautiful, grows inside you again and another man sees you and thinks you are beautiful and it's all to do over again. Now I'm past it. But it still might come again.

- Katina Paxinou (as Pilar) in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Addison DeWitt: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that in itself is probably the reason: You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also our contempt for humanity and inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

Margo Channing: As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
Bill Sampson: For instance what?
Margo Channing: For instance: you!

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Lise Bouvier: Jerry, if it means anything to you, I love you.

- Leslie Caron (as Lise Bouvier) in An American in Paris (1951)

Fran Kubelik: When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara.

- Shirley MacLaine (as Fran Kubelik) in The Apartment (1960)

C.C. Baxter: Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.

- Jack Lemmon (as C.C. Baxter) in The Apartment (1960)