Though the movie industry has evolved and changed, one thing remains: In Hollywood, love is epic (and occasionally a little cheesy). Whether it’s a feel-good chick flick or an angsty drama, these lines are some of the most memorable and most romantic in cinematic history.
1. “What do you want to be married to me for, anyhow?”
“So I can kiss you anytime I want.”
– Sweet Home Alabama
2. “I want us to be together for as long as we’ve got. And if that’s not very long, then that’s just how it is…it’ll have to do.”
– The Theory of Everything
3. “So what happens after he climbs up and rescues her?”
“She rescues him right back.”
– Pretty Woman
4. “I love how she makes me feel, like anything’s possible, or like life is worth it.”
– 500 Days of Summer
5. “Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.”
– Pearl Harbor
6. “You jump, I jump, right?”
– Titanic
7. “If you can promise me anything, promise me that whenever you’re sad, or unsure, or you lose complete faith, that you’ll try to see yourself through my eyes.”
– P.S. I Love You
8. “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”
– The Notebook
9. “You’ll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.”
– The Way We Were
10. “I love you.”
“I know.”
– Star Wars: Episode IV-VI
11. “…I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call. But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.”
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– Ten Things I Hate About You
12. “I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.”
– You’ve Got Mail
13. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”
– Atonement
14. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
– The Fault In Our Stars
15. “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.”
– When Harry Met Sally
16. “I want to love you the way I do now the rest of my life.”
– The Bridges of Madison County
17. “Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space.”
– The Great Gatsby
18. “As you wish.”
– Princess Bride
19. “Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.”
– Casablanca
20. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you. And I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
– Pride and Prejudice
