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Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart. –Jean d’Albert of Navare, Spanish monarch,16th century
When I was a young man
I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well,
I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. –Émile Auguste
Chartier Alain, French philosopher, 1868-1951
Woman’s great strength lies in being late or absent. –Alain
Is sex dirty? Only if you do it right. –Woody Allen, American filmmaker, 1935-
I was incredible in bed last night. I never once had to sit up and consult the manual. –Woody Allen
Meet me in the bedroom in five minutes and bring a cattle prod. –Woody Allen
My brain? It’s my second favorite organ. –Woody Allen
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. –Maya Angelou, American author, 1928-
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. –Minna Antrim, American epigrammatist, 1861-?
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. –Minna Antrim
Men like silent women. They think they’re listening. –Marcel Archard
Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. –Hannah Arendt, German born American political philosopher, 1906-1975
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. –János Arnay, Hungarian poet, 1817-1882
I married beneath me. All women do. –Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, British politician, 1879-1964
Love, and do what you like. –Augustine, Church Doctor, 354-430
Marriage is only a relative good, and it would be better if all men were to refrain from it. –Augustine
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it. –Jane Austen, English novelist, 1775-1817
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. –Jim Backus, American actor, 1913-1989
This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. –Roger Gilbert Bannister, British runner, first man to break the four-minute mile (1954), 1929-
It isn’t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. –Matt Barry
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. –Jean Baudrillard, French semiologist, 1929
(Epitaph for a notoriously loose woman) She sleeps alone at last. –Robert Charles Benchley, American humorist, 1889-1945
The world has suffered more form the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. –Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, American satirical author, 1842-1914
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized how many people do not regard him as a sex symbol. –Angie Bowie
I will always love the false image I had of you. –Asleigh Brilliant
Whoso loves
Believes the impossible. –Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English poet, 1806-1861
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. The last of life, for which the first was made. –Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889
There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. –Jean de La Bruyère, French writer and moralist, 1645-1696
How beautifully leaves grow old. How light and full of color are their last days. –John Burroughs, American naturalist and writer, 1837-1921
Glamour: The undefinable something about a girl with a big bosom. –Abe Burrows, playwright, American playwright, 1910-1985
She is a fascinating woman, and he is very fond of fascinating with her. –Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902
Fare thee well! And
if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well! –Byron, George Gordon Noel , English poet,
1788-1824
Gone glimmering through the dream of things that were. –Byron
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies –Byron
Follow your bliss. –Motto of James Campbell
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die. – Hallowed Ground,
Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, 1777-1844
She was the kind of girl who’d eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts. –Raymond Thornton Chandler, American author, 1888-1959
Great loves too must be endured. –Coco Chanel, French couturière, 1883-1971
Scheherazade is easy; a little black dress is difficult. –Coco Chanel
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would have chosen a suit by it. –Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor, 1888-1972
My wife and I tried to breakfast together but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. –Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British prime minister and writer, 1874-1965
Chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. –Alex Comfort, British gerontologist and author, 1920--2000
Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d. –William
Congreve, English dramatist, 1670-1729
Marriage is a wonderful invention, but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. –Bill Connolly
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to be happy, to live, to love-and to put its trust in life. –Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist, 1857-1924
Aristocrats spend their
childhood being beaten by fierce nannies and their later years murdering
wildlife, so it’s hardly surprising that their sex lives are a bit cockeyed.
– Jilly Cooper
No visit to Dove Cottage, Grasmere, is complete without examining the outhouse where Hazlitt’s father, a Unitarian minister of strong liberal views, attempted to put his hand up Dorothy Wordsworth’s skirt. –Alan Coren, British educator and humorist, 1938-
Will you call me, Noel?
I certainly will-many things. –Noel Pierce Coward, British playwright, actor,
and composer, 1899-1973
What men desire is a virgin who’s a whore. –Edward Dahlberg, American author and critic, 1900-1977
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. –Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist and journalist, 1913-1995
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses. –Marie de Vichy-Chamrond Du Deffand, French literary patron, 1697-1780
I dress for women and undress for men. –Angie Dickinson
Chastity is an insult to the Creator and an abomination to man and beast. –Norman Douglas, British author, 1868-1952
Stay, O sweet, and do not rise!
The light that comes shines from thine eyes;
And day breaks not, it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part. – Daybreak, John Donne, English divine and metaphysical poet, c.
1572-1631
All heiresses are beautiful. –John Dryden, English poet, dramatist, and critic, 1631-1700
There is a woman in every case, as soon as they bring me a report, I say, “Cherchez la femme”. –Alexandre Dumas, fils, French dramatist, 1824-1895
The trouble is you
can’t live with men, but you can’t chop them into little pieces and boil the
flesh off their bones, because that would be cooking. –Jenny Éclair
Say “I love you” to those you love, the eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all. –George Eliot, born Marian Evans, English novelist, 1819-1880
We don’t believe in rheumatism and love until after the first attack. –Ebner Eschenbach
Love, while you are able to love. –Herman Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet and revolutionary
It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. –Margaret Fuller, American writer and lecturer, 1810-1850
There is only one proper
way to wear a beautiful dress and that is to forget you are wearing it. –Mme.
De Giardin
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. –Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and novelist, 1883-1931
A beautiful and sparkling, but superficial woman rules a wide circle, a woman of real culture a small one. Johann Wolfgang von Göethe, German poet and dramatist, 1749-1832
A man’s foibles are what make him loveable. –Göethe
Do you know the land where the lemon trees flower? –Göethe
There is a big difference between the bestowal of your affection and the bestowal of yourself. –Baltasar Gracián y Morales – Spanish writer and Jesuit, 1601-1658
Love is a perky little elf dancing a merry little jig and then he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. –Matt Groening, American cartoonist, 1954-
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned-don’t have sex with authorities. –Matt Groening
Women forgive injuries, but never forgive slights. –Halburton
French nudes look as if they had just taken off their clothes; Greek nudes look as if they had never put them on. –S.C. Hall,
Such a wife as I want…must believe in God and hate a saint. –Alexander Hamilton, American Revolutionary leader and politician, 1757-1804
Nine-tenths of the letters in which people speak unreservedly of their innermost feelings are written after ten o’clock at night. –Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928
There are names written on her immortal scroll at which fame blushes. –William Hazlitt, English essayist, 1778-1830
Oh, what lies there are in kisses! –Heinrich Heine, German poet and journalist, 1797-1856
The sea has its pearls,
The heavens its’ stars-
But my heart, my heart,
My heart has its love. –Heine
All this and heaven too. –Mathew Henry, English Bible scholar, 18th century
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. –Hepburn, Katherine Houghton , American actress, 1909-
To be loved is very demoralizing. –Hepburn
Modesty is ruin to a harlot. –The Hitopadesa
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. –Anthony Hope Hopkins, British author, 1863-1933
Her face was her chaperone. –Rupert Hughes
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. –Aldous Leonard Huxley, British author, 1894-1963
The deepest craving in human nature is the desire to be appreciated. –William James, American psychologist and philosopher, 1842-1910
To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. –Samuel Johnson, English author and lexicographer, 1709-1784
Flattery very seldom
changes a woman’s character, though it may sway her judgement.
She accepts it as her right but very seldom believes it. –Orpheus C.
Kerr, aka Robert Henry Newell, American humorist and journalist, 1836-1901
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. – Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, French Romantic poet, 1790-1869
Same old slippers,
Same old rice,
Same old glance of paradise. –William James Lampton
Music is love in search of a word. –Sidney Lanier, American writer and musician, 1842-1881
He gave her a look you could have poured on waffles. –Ring (Ringgold, Jr.) Lardner, American humorist, 1885-1933
It’s odd to think we might have been
Sun, moon, and stars unto each other-
Only, I turned down one little street
As you went up another. –Fanny Heaslip Lea
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. –Stephen Butler Leacock, Canadian humorist and economist, 1869-1944
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly-very slowly. –Gypsy Rose Lee, American burlesque entertainer and writer, 1914-1970
Love is a
promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
–John Winston Lennon, British rock musician, 1940-1980
These, too, these, too
I leave to you! –Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, American author, 1906-
Do not come when I am dead
To sit beside a low green mound,
Or bring the first gay daffodils
Because I love them so,
For I shall not be there.
You cannot find me there
I will look at you from the eyes
Of little children;
I will bend to meet you in the swaying boughs
Of bud-thrilled trees,
And caress you with the passionate sweep
Of storm-filled winds;
I will give you strength in your upward tread
Of everlasting hills
I will cool your tired body in the flow
Of the limpid river;
I will warm your work-glorified hands through the glow
Of the winter fire;
I will soothe you into forgetfulness to the drop, drop
Of the rain on the roof;
I will speak to you out of the rhymes
Of the Masters;
I will dance with you in the lilt
Of the violin, And make your heart leap with the burning cadence
Of the organ;
I will flood your soul with the flaming radiance
Of the sunrise,
And bring
you peace in the tender rose and gold
Of the after-sunset.
All these have made me happy:
They are a part of me;
I shall become a part of them. – My Hereafter, Juanita De Long
Ships that pass in the night. –Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, American poet, 1807-1882
Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got. –Sophia Loren, Italian actress, 1934-
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more. –Richard Lovelace, English poet, 1618-1658
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. –George MacDonald, Scottish children’s writer, 1824-1905
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. –Françoise d’Aubigne De Maintenon, French consort and secret wife of Louis XIV, 1635-1719
The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. –Don (Donald Robert Perry) Marquis, American humorist and journalist, 1878-1937
I wasn’t kissing her. I was just whispering in her mouth. –Chico Marx, American comic actor, 1891-1961
Anyone who says they can see through a woman is missing a lot. –Groucho Marx, American comic actor, 1895-1977
If I held you any closer, I would be on the other side of you. –Groucho Marx
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. –Groucho Marx
Lulubelle, it’s you! I didn’t recognize you standing up. –Groucho Marx
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. –Groucho Marx
Let’s face it: Beauty is a bit of a bore. –Maugham, William Somerset, British author, 1874-1966
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. –Mencken, Henry Louis, American journalist and satirical writer, 1880-1956
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her. –H.L. Mencken
A woman always has her revenge ready. –Tartuffe, Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière, French dramatist, 1622-1673
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. –Alice Monro, Canadian writer, 1931
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. –Marilyn Monroe, American actress,
1926-1962
No on ever called me pretty when I was a little girl. –Marilyn Monroe
Choose your love. Love your choice. –Thomas S. Monson
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. –Michele Eyquem de Montaigne, French essayist, 1533-1592
A man who has never made a woman mad is a failure in life. –Christopher Darlington Morley, American novelist, poet, and journalist, 1890-1957
Love…is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. – Jean Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher, 1919-
No one has ever loved anybody the way everybody wants to be loved. –Mignon McLaughlin, American author and editor, 1915?-
A man admires a woman not for what she says but what she listens to. –George Jean Nathan, American critic, 1882-1958
There was music all about us, we were growing quite forgetful. –Alfred Nayes
God created women. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment. – The Antichrist, Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. –Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil II
I have loved many the more and the few-
I have loved many, that I might love you. –Grace Fallow Norton
In love there are two things-bodies and words. –Joyce Carol Oates, American author, 1938-
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? –Margaret Oliphant-Wilson, English novelist and historian, 1828-1897
The prickly thorn often bears soft roses. –Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-17
To be loved, to be loveable. –Ovid
Never got to bed with anyone whose emotional problems are greater than your own. – Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player, 1906-1982
I require only three things of a man; he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. –Dorothy Rothschild Parker, American humorist, 1893-1967
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong, and no man ever has what he should. –Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, and translator, 1908-1950
I did not suspect it was an orgy until three days later. -Sidney Joseph Perlman, American satirical writer, 1904-1979
The sweetest flower that grows,
I give you as we part.
For you it a rose
For me it is my heart. –Frederick Peterson
A lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers – damn anthropologists. –Emo Phillips
Women: you can’t live with them and you can’t get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash. –Emo Phillips
You’re the top! You’re
the coliseum,
You’re the top! You’re the
Louvre Museum,
You’re a melody
From a symphony by Strauss
You’re a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare sonnet,
You’re Mickey Mouse
You’re the top! You’re the
Tower of Pisa
You’re the smile on the Mona Lisa. –Cole Albert Porter, American composer
and lyricist, 1893-1964
An absence, the decline of a dinner invitation, an unintentional coldness, can accomplish more than all the cosmetics and beautiful dresses in the world. –Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922
Close friends love you for who you are, not who they want you to be. –Ted Rall
Beauty is power-a smile is its sword. –Charles Reade, British writer, 1814-1884
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. –Pierre August Renoir, 1841-1919
…And in that moment I
possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the
feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves,
we always end up losing. That to
love is to lose, the moment we agree to bargain.
And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.
–Ann Rinaldi
I could marry anyone I please. So far I haven’t pleased anyone. –Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In, American sketch comedy show, 1968-1973
I love being married.
It’s so great to find the one special person you want to annoy for the
rest of your life. –Rita Rudner, American actress
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it of you. –Françoise Sagan, born Françoise Quoirez, French writer, 1935-
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. –Charles Monroe Schultz, (Charlie Brown), American cartoonist, 1922-2001
God made a heart of gold, of gold,
Shining and sweet and true;
Gave it to a home of fairest mould,
Blest it, and called it you –Robert William Service, British born Canadian
poet and novelist, 1874-1958
Love and stoplights can be cruel. –Sesame Street
The heart is never neutral. –Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, English politician, 1621-1683
Sweets to the sweet; farewell. – Hamlet, William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet, 1564-1616
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory-
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on. – Memory, Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, 1792-1822
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
–Shelley, To a Skylark
If you carry yourself like a beauty, people will think of you as one. –Michele Slong
Beauty is but a short-lived tyranny. –Socrates, Greek philosopher, 469-399 BC
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. –Edmund Spencer, English poet, c. 1522-1599
An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it. –Baruch or Benjamin Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and theologian, 1632-1677
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. –Anna Louise Germaine De Staël, Swiss-French writer, 1766-1817
I can’t mate in captivity. –Gloria Steinem, American feminist and writer, 1934-
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. –Adlai Ewing Stevenson, American liberal politician, 1900-1965
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. –Charles Talleyrand-Perigord, French statesman, 1754-1838
Be careful not to make a woman weep.
God counts her tears. –The Talmud
‘Tis better to have loved and lost,
than to never have loved at all. – In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson, English poet, 1809-1892
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger. –James Grover Thurber, American humorist and illustrator, 1894-1961
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -Lily Tomlin, American comedienne, 1939-
He may be fat, stupid, and old, but none the less he can condemn the woman’s flabby body and menopause and encounter only sympathy if he exchanges her for a younger one. –Liv Ullman, Norwegian actress and director, 1939-
I’ve been married so long I’m on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce. –Susan Vass
The best way to know God is to love many things. –Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853-1890
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher income tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. –Judith Viorst, American poet and journalist, 1935-
At least I know what love is really like. –Virgil, Roman poet, 70-19 BC
Thus shall you go to the stars. –Virgil
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. –David Viscott
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. –François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, French philosopher and writer, 1694-1778
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and spotted back. –Voltaire
On glance at thine creates a day. –Isaac Watts, English hymn-writer, 1674-1748
Love is not consolation. It is light. –Simone Weil, French philosopher and mystic, 1909-1943
I never loved another person the way I loved myself. –Mae West, American actress, 1892-1980
I used to be Snow White…but I drifted. –Mae West
I wrote the story myself. It’s all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. –Mae West
Let’s forget the six feet and talk about the seven inches. –Mae West
When I’m good, I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad I’m better. –Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them. –Mae West
He is every other inch a gentleman. –Rebecca West, British author, 1892-1983
Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning, definitely the sensation of belonging. –Elwyn Brooks White, American author and editor, 1899-1985
All, all for immortality
Love like the light silently wrapping all. –Walt Whitman, American poet,
1819-1892
Good sex is just a matter of good lighting. –Oscar Fingal O’Flarhetie Wills Wilde, Irish playwright and author, 1854-1900
One should always be in love; that’s the reason why one should never marry. –Wilde
She who hesitates is won. –Wilde
There’s always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. –Wilde
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you. –Wilde
The discovery that one
cannot well give back or be given what one has given or been given in the same
place is sometimes as painful as the discovery that one is being loved on
principle and not from preference. –Williams
She’s been on more laps than a napkin. –Walter Winchell, American journalist, 1897-1972
The girl who is easy to get may be hard to take. –F. Windy
I think, therefore I am single. –Lizz Winstead
It was so cold the other day, I almost got married. –Shelly Winters, American actress, 1922-
I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini. –Alexander Humphreys Woollcott, American columnist and critic, 1887-1943
Ladies, just a little more virginity if you don’t mind. -Woollcott
The ageless in your heart, I’ll come to rest. –Hans Zinssler
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Dance like nobody is watching and love like its never going to hurt.
Faint is the bliss that never passed through pain.
Follow your heart because your heart will know the love that is meant for you.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first says, “To the woman I love”, the second, “To my best friend”.
If you drink, don’t park. Accidents cause people.
Just because a dress is red satin doesn’t mean it will come off easily.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Marriage is an institution, and who wants to live in an institution?
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Music is love in search of a word.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
Only marry a man who you would choose for a friend if they were a woman.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
That’s a great outfit you’re wearing. I have just the perfect hanger for it.
The only person worth your tears is someone who would never make you cry.
Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody’s watching.
You’ve heard about the good time had by all ladies and gentlemen, and here she is!
Sayings
and Proverbs:
The charming don’t have to be beautiful. –Jewish
Films:
Yet Ah, that Spring should
Vanish with the Rose!
That Youth’s sweet-scented
Manuscript must close!
Well, spring isn’t everything, is it Essie?
There’s a lot to be said for autumn.
That has beauty, too. And
winter-if you’re together. –Lionel Barrymore, Ah,
Wilderness!
You know what you are to me? Paris. That’s
you. Paris!
With you, I escape. Follow
me? The whole town.
A spring morning in Paris. You’re
lovely. You’re marvelous. And
you know what you remind me of? The
subway. –Charles Boyer, Algiers
I idealized them. Every
woman I meet I put up there. Of
course, the longer I know her-I mean, the better I know her…
Oh huh. Yes,
it’s hard to keep them up there.
Yes, isn’t it?
Pretty soon, the pedestal wobbles and then topples.
C’est la vie, et cetera. –Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, An
Affair to Remember
Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?
–Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember
That’s quite a dress you almost have on. -Gene Kelly, An
American in Paris
That was the most fun I’ve had without laughing. –Woody
Allen, Annie Hall
Darling, I was afraid you might be angry or resent my
coming here, but-but I had to take that chance.
Why, right in the middle of everything, suddenly I knew one thing so
clearly: the party is where you are. –Lana Turner, The Bad and the Beautiful
She came at me in sections.
More curves than a scenic railway. –Fred Astaire, The Band Wagon
Harry, we must beware of those men.
They’re desperate characters…Not one of them looked at my legs.
-Jennifer Jones, Beat the Devil
I must have your golden hair, fascinating eyes, alluring
smile, your lovely arms, your form divine-
Wait a minute. Wait
a minute! Is this a proposal, or
are you taking an inventory? –John Miljan and Mae West, Belle of the Nineties
The love of a man for a woman waxes and wanes like the
moon, but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars and endures
like the word of the prophet. –Beau
Geste
How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it
in my heart? How many times have
you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up?
How many times have we had to fall in love all over again? –Myrna Loy, The
Best Years of Our Lives
She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.
-Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep
There are few people who know the secret of making a heaven
here on earth. You are one of those
rare people. -Cary Grant, The Bishop’s
Wife
What would you like to have?
Sex. –George Segal and Susan Anspach, Blume in Love
Two’s company and three’s an adult movie. –Brain
Donors
Why did you two ever get married?
Ahh, I don’t know. It
was raining and we were in Pittsburgh. –Barbara Stanwyck and Helen Broderick, The
Bride Walks Out
Now it isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because,
after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you, but-well,
there haven’t been any quiet moments, Cary Grant, Bringing
Up Baby
You’re worse than a hopeless romantic.
You’re a hopeful one. –Jane Fonda, California
Suite
Perhaps it’s better if I live in your heart where the
world can’t see me. If I am dead,
there’ll be no stain our love. -Greta Garbo, Camille
If you had the choice-
Yeah?
Would you rather love a girl or have her love you? -Jack
Nicholson and Art Garfunkal, Carnal
Knowledge
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. Someday
you’ll understand that. Not now.
Here’s looking at you kid. -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
We’ll always have Paris.
We didn’t have it. We’d-we’d
lost it until you came to Casablanca. We
got it back last night. –Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
Play it, Sam. Play
“As Time Goes By”. –Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
Here’s looking at you, kid. –Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
Do you know what I feel like? I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Then jump off the roof, Maggie. Jump off it. Now,
cats jump off roofs, and they land uninjured.
Do it. Jump.
Jump where? Into
what?
Take a lover. -Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof
She's golden and striped like something in the jungle. -Hayley
Mills, The Chalk Garden
I suppose you know you have a wonderful body.
I’d like to do it in clay. –Lola Albright, Champion
In the spring, a young man’s fancy turns pretty fancy.
–Burt Lancaster, Come Back, Little Sheba
Darling, poor fool, don’t you know I’m in love with
you? -Bette Davis, The Dark at the Top of
the Stairs
I found the portrait long before I met Mari, and I
worshipped it. When I did meet her,
it was as if I’d always known her and wanted her. –Clifton Webb, The
Dark Corner
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in
bed at the same time. -Dirk Bogarde, Darling
Marry me, and I’ll never look at another horse! –Groucho
Marx, A Day at the Races
Love is the morning and the evening star. -Burt Lancaster, Elmer
Gantry
Jeez, you’re old-fashioned, aren’t you?
From the waist up. –Charlotte Rampling and Robert Mitchum,
Farewell, My Lovely
Not Anytime Annie! Say,
who could forget her? She only said
‘no’ once-and then she didn’t hear the question. –George E. Stone, 42nd
Street
I know it’s harder for you.
But now I am you also. If
you go, I go, too. That’s the
only way I can go. You’re me now.
Surely, you must feel that, Maria. Remember
last night? Our time is now and
it’ll never end. You’re me now,
and I am you. Now do you
understand? Now, you are going.
And you’re going well and fast and far, and we’ll go to America
another time, Maria. Stand up now
and go, and we both go. Stand up,
Maria. Remember you’re me, too.
You’re all there will ever be of me now.
Stand up. No.
Stand up. There’s no
goodbye, Maria, because we’re not apart.
Pilar! No, don’t turn
‘round. Go now.
Be strong. Take care of our
life. -Gary Cooper, For Whom the Bell
Tolls
A heart can get broken, but it
keeps beating just the same. Fried Green
Tomatoes
Tell me why it is that every man who seems attractive these
days is either married or barred on a technicality? -Celeste Holm, Gentleman’s
Agreement
I love you now; in half an hour, I'll wonder how I ever got
into this. You have a passion for
respectability and I have a horror of loneliness-that's love. -Steven Hill, The
Goddess
Isn’t it enough that you’ve gathered every other
man’s heart today? You’ve
always had mine. You cut your teeth
on it. -Leslie Howard, Gone with the Wind
Tell me, Scarlet, do you never
shrink from marrying men you don’t love? –Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind
Don’t start flirting with me. I’m not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you.
What do you want?
I’ll tell you, Scarlet O’Hara, if you’ll take that
Southern belle simper of your face. Someday
I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you.
–Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, Gone with
the Wind
No, I don’t think I will kiss
you-although you need kissing badly. That’s
what’s wrong with you. You should
be kissed and often and by someone who knows how. –Clark Gable, Gone
with the Wind
Mrs. Robinson, do you think we could say a few words to
each other first this time? -Dustin Hoffman, The
Graduate
Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?
–Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mrs. Robinson, if you don’t mind my saying so, this
conversation is getting a little strange. –Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Maybe we could do something else together.
Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie? –Dustin Hoffman, The
Graduate
You are king of the Chapel, but I will be queen in my own
kitchen.
You will be queen wherever you walk. –Walter Pidgeon, How
Green was my Valley
Tell me, Mrs. Wright, does you
husband interfere with your marriage? –Oscar Levant, Humoresque
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me.
I lived for a few days while you loved me. -Humphrey Bogart, In
a Lonely Place
Once in her life, every woman should have that said to her. I thank you for being the one who said it to me. -Ingrid Bergman, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (On being told she is beautiful)
I love her-I love her with every fiber of my being, ladies
and gentlemen-H.M.S. Torrin.
–Bernard Miles, In Which We Serve
Shapely's the name, and that's the way I like 'em. -Roscoe
Karns, It Happened One Night
I seem to have offended the light of love by using a
polysyllabic word. -Van Heflin, Johnny
Eager
Too many girls follow the line of least resistance.
Yeah, but a good line is hard to resist. -Helen Jerome Eddy
and Mae West, Klondike Annie
With all my heart, I still love the man I killed. -Bette
Davis, The Letter
If the rest of one's life were only a-a few days or a few
hours, would that be enough to justify love? -Fredric March, The
Letter
Yes, sir, they’re gonna say, “There goes that poor old
Clara Varner whose father married her off to a dust-scratching, shiftless,
no-good farmer who just happened by.” Well,
let ‘em talk. I’ll tell you one
thing: you’re gonna wake up in the morning, smiling. –Paul Newman, The
Long, Hot Summer
To love is to suffer.
To avoid suffering, one must not love, but then one suffers from not
loving. Therefore, to love is to
suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer.
To be happy is to love, to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering
makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or
suffer from too much happiness. I
hope you’re getting this down… -Love
and Death
Darling, whatever happens, always remember: nothing is fair
or unfair under heaven. -William Holden, Love
is a Many Splendored Thing
…life’s greatest tragedy is not to be loved. -William
Holden, Love is a Many Splendored Thing
We have not missed, you and I-we have not missed that many
splendored thing. -William Holden, Love is
a Many Splendored Thing
Look, I don’t want anybody pointing to me and Joan in a
couple if years, telling some miserable story ending with, “But they’re
still together”. –Joseph Hindy, Lovers
and Other Strangers
Who the hell do you think you’re dealing with?
In case you didn’t happen to notice it, you big Texas, longhorn bull,
I’m one helluvah gorgeous chick. –Sylvia Miles, Midnight
Cowboy
Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and
I, and lodge with my fleas in the hill? I
mean flee to my lodge in the hills. –Groucho Marx, Monkey Business
Would you try to seduce me? –Maggie McNamara, The
Moon is Blue
Don’t you think it’s better for a girl to be
preoccupied with sex than occupied? –Maggie McNamara, The
Moon is Blue
I should think loneliness would be unknown to a beautiful
woman. -Jose Ferrer, Moulin Rouge
Mack, you ever been in love?
No, I've been a bartender all my life. -Henry Fonda and J.
Farrell MacDonald, My Darling Cleminentine
There are worse things than chastity, Mr. Shannon.
Yes, lunacy and death. –Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton, The
Night of the Iguana
I thought you were sexless, but you’ve suddenly turned
into a woman. Do you know how I
know that? Because you, not me, are
taking pleasure in my being tied up. All
women, whether they want to face it our not, want to see men in a tied-up
situation. They spend their lives
trying to get a man into a tied-up situation.
Their lives are fulfilled when they can a man-or as many men as they
can-into a tied-up situation. –Richard Burton, The
Night of the Iguana
Listen to me. I'm
no good-I never pretended to be-but I love you.
I'm a hustler-I've always been one-but I love you.
I may be the thief of the world, but with you I've always been on the
level. -Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley
The picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days
when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm-and if a Frenchman turned out the
light it was not on account of an air raid. –Ninotchka
How about coming up to my place for a spot of heavy
breathing? –Walter Matthau, Pete ‘n’
Tillie
We were just playing a little game called Photography.
You turn out the lights and see what develops. -Barry Coe, Peyton
Place
I don't want to be worshipped. I want to be loved. -Katherine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Not anything. Don’t
say anything-and especially not “darling”. –Katherine Hepburn, The
Philadelphia Story
I can’t send you flowers, baby, but I can send you. -Nick
Adams, Picnic
Baby, what you do! -William Holden, Picnic
I get so tired of just being told I’m pretty. –Kim
Novak, Picnic
You should look upon this tragedy as an episode in the
wonderful spectacle of life. What
is it that has really happened? Someone
has killed herself for love of you. I
do wish that I had had such an experience.
That women who have admired me-and there have been some-have always
insisted on living on long after I have ceased to care for them or they for me.
–George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian
Gray
Love isn’t an opinion. It’s, it’s a chemical reaction. We’ve never even kissed-well, they didn’t hit the moon with the first missile they shot either .
Oh, Jonathan, I guess that’s what I want: to hit the
moon. –Tony Randall and Doris Day, Pillow
Talk
I’m sorry, Louise. You
watch temperatures go down and then go up again.
In love, there are no relapses. Once
you’re out of it, the fever never comes back again. –Van Heflin, Possessed
All of which doesn’t answer my question.
Will you marry me? I’m aging visibly, Raymond Massey, Possessed
Smells wonderful! Why
do they still make perfumes like “Bouquet de Fleur” as if things still
happened in flower gardens? Now if
they turned out something like “Wet Hair After Swimming”, you’d have
something. –Van Heflin, Possessed
We hate the people who love us because they’re the only
ones who can hurt us. -Samuel S. Hinds, Private
Worlds
If I live to be 100, I will never understand why any young
man would come to Paris without evening clothes. -Clifton Webb, The
Razor’s Edge
It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look I loved.
It won't ever come back. I
killed that when I told you about Rebecca.
It's gone. In a few hours,
you've grown so much older. -Laurence Olivier, Rebecca
And another thing. Please
promise me never to wear black satin or pearls, or to be 36 years old. -Laurence
Olivier, Rebecca
I repeat what I said: either you go to America with Mrs.
Van Hopper or you come home to Manderlay with me.
You mean you want a secretary or something?
I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool. –Laurence
Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
If you love me, you’ll let me eat your brains. –The
Return of the Living Dead
We’ve decided on a white wedding, in spite of the
circumstances. –Ambrosine Philpotts, Room
at the Top
People who are very beautiful make their own laws. -Vivien
Leigh, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Rose?
How did you know my name?
What other name could it be? -Ben Cooper and Marissa Pavan,
The Rose Tattoo
…love that overthrows life. –Shakespeare in Love
…riot in the heart. –Shakespeare in Love
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai
Lily. –Marlene Dietrich, Shanghai
Express
I wasn’t always rich…There was a time when I didn’t
know where my next husband was coming from. –Mae West, She Done Him Wrong
Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?
I’m home every evening. –Mae West, She
Done Him Wrong
When women go wrong, men go right after them. –Mae West, She
Done Him Wrong
All they have to do is play eight bars of “Come to me, my
Melancholy Baby” and my spine turns to custard. I get goose-pimply all over and I come to ‘em. –Marilyn
Monroe, Some Like It Hot
Look at that! Look
how she moves! That’s just like
Jell-O on springs. She got some
sort of built-in-motor or something, huh? I
tell you it’s a whole different sex. –Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot
It is very sad. To
love-and lose somebody. But in a
while, you will forget. And you
will take up the threads of your life where you left off-not so long ago.
And you will work hard. There
is lots of happiness in working hard. Maybe
the most. –Michael Chekhov, Spellbound
Don’t bother to read the note. I’ll tell you what it says.
Eleven roses and the twelfth is you. –Gail Patrick, Stage Door
I love you, June. You’re life, and I’m leaving you. -David Niven, Stairway to Heaven
She was a tramp.
She was a human being.
Let me remind you that even the most unworthy us has a right to life and
the pursuit of happiness.
From what I hear, she pursued it in all directions.
–Patricia Hitchcock and Leo G. Carroll, Strangers
on a Train
You need somebody. And
I need somebody, too. Could it be
you and me, Blanche? –Karl Malden, A
Streetcar Named Desire
Listen baby, when we first met-you and me-when you thought
I was common. Well, how right you
was! I was as common as dirt.
You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you
down off them columns, and you loved it! We
were having them colored lights going! And
wasn’t we happy together? Wasn’t
it all okay till she showed here? –Marlon Brando, A
Streetcar Named Desire
When you brought me the roses, I felt something stir inside me that I thought was dead forever. –Patricia Neal, The Subject was Roses
I hope I’m not saying the
wrong thing, but I love you. –Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
No one in love is free, or ever wants to be. -Shirley
Knight, Sweet Bird of Youth
What Lotus blossom has, the government doesn’t issue.
–Glenn Ford, The Teahouse of the August
Moon
I always have liked redheads.
You shouldn’t. Red
means stop.
I’m color-blind. –George Raft and Ann Sheridan, They
Drive by Night
The possibility of arousing unsuspected passion at my age
would be not only disturbing but rather miraculous. –Clifton Webb, Three
Coins in the Fountain
Please, Julia, let’s not bicker since there’s no love
lost between us.
That’s the tragic part, Richard. There’s been so much love between us. -Clifton Webb and
Barbara Stanwyck, Titanic
You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve.
You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything.
Not a thing. Oh, maybe just
whistle. You know how to whistle,
don’t you, Steve? Just put your
lips together, and blow. –Lauren Bacall, To
Have and have Not
If I would have forgotten myself with that girl, I would
have remembered it. –Fred Astaire, Top
Hat
In some humpty-dumpty way, that was true love. -Roscoe
Karns, Twentieth Century
I was married for nine years. Eight of those years were very passionate.
But-well, passion’s a mild word for reality.
It’s-well, it was more like war. –Alan Bates, An
Unmarried Woman
You know, there are three things that we could do right
now: you could call a taxi and go home, or we could go on walking and I could
lecture you on the real dilemma of modern art, or we could go to my place and
thoroughly enjoy each other. –Alan Bates, An
Unmarried Woman
I believe that a man is fire and a woman, fuel.
And she who is born beautiful is born married. –Marlon Brando, Viva
Zapata
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. –Richard
Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Now I know I have a heart, because it is breaking. –The
Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz
Hearts will never be practical
until they are made unbreakable…-The
Wizard of Oz
No pride at all! That’s
a luxury a woman in love can’t afford. –Norma Shearer, The
Women
I’m an old woman, my dear.
I know my sex. –Lucile Watson, The
Women
Heathcliff, can you see the crag over there where our
castle is? I’ll wait for you
until you come. -Merle Oberon’s last words, Wuthering
Heights
In this house with Heathcliff, nothing can live.
Nothing but hate. I can feel it breathing like the devil’s breath on me.
And you. He hates you worse
then he does me. Each time you kiss
him, his heart breaks with rage because it’s not Cathy. -Hugh Williams, Wuthering
Heights
...needing her more than my own life, belonging to her more
than my own soul. -Laurence Olivier, Wuthering
Heights
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is
me-now-standing on this hill with you. This
is me forever. –Merle Oberon, Wuthering
Heights
Cathy, you’re still my queen. –Laurence Olivier, Wuthering
Heights
Go on, Heathcliff. Run
away. Bring me back the world.
–Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, make the world stop right here.
Make everything stop and stand still and never move again.
Make the moors never change and make you and I never change.
The moors and I will never change, don’t you, Cathy.
–Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, Wuthering
Heights
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you,
I’d be your slave, Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear
of God and the world. I would live
contentedly in your shadow. But
no-you must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue. –Laurence
Olivier, Wuthering Heights
Take me to the window.
Let me look at the moors with you once more, my darling.
Once more. –Merle Oberon, Wuthering
Heights