love:
1. A deep feeling of affection , attachment and solicitude for another person. In his humorous dictionary The Penthouse Sexicon (1968), Frederic Mullally defined LOVE: ' What makes the world go round .' versus LUST: ' What makes the heels go round .'ETYMOLOGY: From the Old English lufr, meaning to be fond-of , and from leof meaning dear. The current spelling l-o-v-e arose sometime before the 12 th century; it applied to the bond between a mother and child.
SYNONYMS: See love [SYN] for synonyms.
2. To like or enjoy enthusiastically.
3. To like or desire ; to take pleasure in; to hold-dear .
4. The object of affection ; a person much loved; a loved-one ; a sweetheart . See love [SYN] for synonyms.
5. A casual term of address or endearment, especially in England, to a friend or stranger, especially to a woman .
SYNONYMS: luv ; luvvy .
6. To fondle amorously; to caress ; to pet .
7. Sexual intercourse . See copulation for synonyms.
8. Love: Cupid or Eros , the god-of-love .
9. To love / to make-love , to court, to woo .
QUOTES:
(1) Tennyson: ' Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all .'
(2) Oscar Wilde: ' Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do-it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word / The coward does it with a kiss / The brave man with a sword! '
(3) Alfred Douglas: ' I am the Love that dare not speak its name .' Last line of his poem: Two Loves .
(4) Dorothy Parker: ' By the time you swear youre his / Shivering and sighing / And he vows his passion is / Infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: / One of you is lying .'
(5) Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ' Early love , chemically based, is when you love the way the other person makes you feel. It is self-centered, feel-good love . Mature love , which comes later in a relationship , is love for whoever a person is. It is other-centered .'
(6) Caesar Enrico Bandello (Edward G . Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930): ' Love. Soft stuff! '
(7) Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to the Soviet enjoy Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) in Ninotchka (1939):
' Love isn't so simple, Ninotchka. Ninotchka, why do doves bill and coo? Why do snails, the coldest of all creatures, circle interminably around each other? Why do moths fly hundred of miles to find their mates? Why do flowers slowly open their petals? Oh, Ninotchka, Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight symptom of the divine passion . A general warmth, a strange heaviness in your limbs, a burning of the lips that isn't thirst but something a thousand times more tantalizing, more exalting than thirst .'
(8) Harry Anders (Michael Caine) and Stacey Mensdorf (Sean Young) in Blue Ice (1992):
-- Harry: ' I knew a girl like you once and I felt the same way about her as I feel about you. I didn't know whether to love her or hate her .'
-- Stacey: ' So what did you do? '
-- Harry: ' A little of both .'
(9) Kevin (Michael Keaton) and Julia (Geena Davis) in Speechless (1994):
-- Kevin: ' Shall we speak the unspoken language of love? '
-- Julia: ' You mean the kind only dogs can hear? '
-- Kevin: ' Yes, the very same .' They jump under the covers and start woof-woofing and...
(10) Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont) and Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx) in Cocoanuts (1929):
-- Mrs. Potter: ' I don't think you'd love me if I were poor .'
-- Mr. Hammer: ' I might, but I'd keep my mouth shut .'
(11) Groucho (Groucho Marx) in Monkey Business (1931): ' Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo .' Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), Parisian cab driver, to fortune hunter Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) in Midnight (1939): ' When you're poor love flies out the window .'
(12) Peachum (Fritz Rasp), the king of beggars, to his daughter Polly (Carola Meher) who secretly married Mack the Knife (Rudolph Forster) in The Threepenny Penny Opera (1931):
-- Peachum: ' You'll get a divorce! '
-- Polly: ' But I love him! How can I get a divorce? '
-- Peachum: ' I'll tan your behind! '
-- Polly: ' It won't do any good. Love is greater that a tanned behind .'
(13) Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and Mata Hari (Greta Garbo) in Mata Hari (1932):
-- Lt. Alexis: ' I love you as one adores sacred things .'
-- Mata Hari: ' What sacred things? '
-- Lt. Alexis: ' God, country , honor, you .'
-- Mata Hari: ' I come last? '
-- Lt. Alexis: ' No, you come first , before anything .'
(14) Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo) to Armand Duval (Robert Taylor) in Camille (1936): ' I've loved you as much as I could love . If that wasn't enough I'm not to blame. We don't make our own hearts .'
(15) Tillie Seltzer (Carol Burnett) and husband Pete (Walter Matthau) in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972):
-- Tillie: ' When I think of all the times I was so irritated with you yet, right now, I don't think I ever loved you more .'
-- Pete: ' Well, love without irritation is just lust .'
(16) Lola (Marlene Dietrich) answering in German to a student's declaration of love made in English in The Blue Angel (1930):
-- Student: ' I love you .'
-- Lola: ' Stop that English drivel .'
(17) Captain Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): ' 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 the both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names. (...) Scarlett! Look at me. I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman . (...) Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once .'
(18) Soviet envoy Lena Yakushova 'Ninotchka' (Greta Garbo) to French Count Leon Bressart (Melvyn Douglas) in Ninotchka (1939): ' Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary, biological, or shall we say chemical, process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it .'
(19) Wayne (Dick Foran) and Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) in My Little Chickadee (1940):
-- Wayne: ' Spring is the time for-love .'
-- Belle: ' What's the matter with the rest of the year? '
(19) Doc Holiday (Walter Huston) to Rio MacDonald (Jane Russell) after Billy the Kid tied her with wet rawhide and left her in the sun to die in The Outlaw (1943): 'The crazier a man is about a woman , the crazier he thinks and the crazier he does .'
(20) Vinny Day (Irene Dunne) about her husband Clare (William Powell) in Life with Father (1947): ' You know , I don't believe Clare has come-out and told me he loves me since we been married . Of course I know he does because I keep reminding him of it . You have to keep reminding them, Cora .'
(21) George, Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) to Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) in The Three Musketeers (1948): ' I understand nothing except that I love you, that the earth is small and that-there is no room on it for you and me apart .'
(22) Athos (Van Heflin) to Lady de Winter (Lana Turner) in The Three Musketeers (1948) ' I loved you as I loved war and drunkenness .'
(23) Debra (Jeanne Crain) and Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) in People Will Talk (1951):
-- Debra: ' I'm in-love-with you .'
-- Noah: ' What makes you think so? '
-- Debra: ' I can't give you symptoms. It's love not measles .'
(24) Sung by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): ' When love goes wrong, nothing goes right. Bees won't buzz , fish won't bite , clock won't strike, a match won't light .'
(25) Anna (Ingrid Bergman) in Indiscreet (1958): ' When love is right, everything is right .'
(26) The cynical Squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to blacksmith Plog (Ake Fridell) who is looking for his unfaithfull wife in The Seventh Seal (1957): ' Haven't you learned by now that love is just another word for lust? '
(27) Diane (Joan Collins) and Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) in The Road to Hong Kong (1962):
-- Diana: ' You know , Chester, you're the sort of man that I could love .'
-- Chester: ' Could you? '
-- Diana: ' Oh yes , I could, Chester. I could love you body and soul .'
-- Chester: ' They're available , in that order .'
(28) Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) walking in the park with Louise (Janet Margolin) in Take the Money and Run (1969): ' All I know is my heart was really pounding and I felt a funny tingling all over. I don't know . I was either in-love or I had smallpox .'
(29) Harold (Bud Cort) and Maude (Ruth Gordon) who is dying in Harold and Maude (1972):
-- Harold: ' I love you! '
-- Maud: ' Oh Harold! That's wonderful! Go and love some more .'
(30) Sancho Panza (James Coco) to Aldonza (Sophia Loren) speaking of Don Quichote in Man of La Mancha (1972): ' They say one mad man makes in hundred and love makes in thousand .'
(31) Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): 'Love is a miracle. It's like a birthmark, you can't hide it .
(32) Sonja (Diane Keaton) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975):
-- Sonja: ' Sex without love is an empty experience .'
-- Boris : ' Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best .'
(33) Sonja (Diane Keaton) to young Natasha (Jessica Harper) in Love and Death (1975): ' Natasha, 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 .'
(34) Annie (Diane Keaton) and Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977):
-- Annie: ' Do you love me? '
-- Alvy: ' Love is too weak a word... I luuurv you. I lOOOve you. I luff you, two f's .'
(35) Stella (Marilyn Sokol) to Gloria (Goldie Hawn) in Foul Play (1978): 'If they say "I like you" it's not so bad . It's when they say "I love you" that's when you gotta watch out .'
(36) Merlin (Nicol Williamson) to King Arthur (Nigel Terry) in Excalibur (1981): 'This lunacy called love , this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king .'
(37) Andrew (Woody Allen) in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982): ' Sex alleviates tension and love causes it .'
(38) Charley (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): ' That ain't love . In-love is temporary. Then you move on to the next in-love. Everybody is always falling in and out of love .'
(39) Charley Partana (Jack Nicholson) to Irene (Kathleen Turner) in Prizzi's Honor (1985): ' I look at you, I see what I want to see . That's what love is .'
(40) Dotty Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) voice over intro of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994): ' Into love and out again. Thus I went and thus I go .'
(41) Beth (Kim Greist) reading the ' cryptic' last lines of Larry's (Billy Crystal) novel in Throw Momma Off the Train (1987); ' Hate makes you impotent . Love makes you crazy. Somewhere in-between , you can survive .'
(42) Charlie (Martin Sheen) in Da (1988): 'It was a long time before I realised that love upside down is love for all that .'
(43) Nathalie De Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) in The Moderns (1988): ' Don't confuse sex and love , Mr. Hart. It will spoil both of 'em for you .'
(44) John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): ' Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for .'
(45) Harris K . Telemacher (Steve Martin) in L.A. Story (1991): ' Why is it that we don't always recognise the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends? '
(46) Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) in Nothing but Trouble (1991): ' When it comes to love , there's no accounting for taste .'
(47) Will (Jack Nicholson) to Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer) in Wolf (1994): ' I want to tell you something. I've never loved anybody this way . I never looked at a woman and thought: if civilization fails, if the world ends, I'll still understand what God meant if I am with her .'
(48) Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): ' You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself .'
(49) Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990): ' Please, God! Don't let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things .'
(50) Georges Duroy/Bel Ami (George Sanders) in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947): ' Love is a subject which always interests women perhaps because in discussing it one passes so readily from the general to the particular .'
(51) Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): ' Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous .'
(52) Kevin (Keanu Reeves) and John/Satan (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1998):
-- Kevin: ' What about love? '
-- John: ' Overrated. Biochemically, no different than eating large quantities of chocolate .'
(53) The Oracle to Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix (1999): ' Being the one is just like being in-love . No one can tell you you're in-love . You just know it , through and through, balls to bones .'
(54) Joan (Angelina Jolie) in Playing by Heart (1999): ' Talking about love is like dancing about architecture .'
(55) Anonymous: ' Love is a phwoarrr letter word .'
(56) William Shakespeare: ' Love is merely a madness .'
(57) Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) to Laura Alden (Michelle Pfeiffer) in Wolf (1994): ' I want to tell you something. I've never loved anybody this way . I never looked at a woman and thought: if civilization fails, if the world ends, I'll still understand what God meant if I am with her .'
(58) Sally Athelny (Frances Dee) and Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) in Of Human Bondage (1934):
-- Sally : ' Of course, I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you .'
-- Philip: ' Yes, that's usually the case . There's usually one who loves and one who is loved .'
-- Sally : ' It's always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him .'
(59) Pat Jamieson (Spencer Tracy) speaking about love-in Without Love (1945): ' Never no more. I don't want anymore of that sickness .'
(60) Philip Marlow (Robert Montgomery) to Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) in Lady in the Lake (1946): ' You got that 'I'm scared but it's wonderful' feeling? '
(61) Emily (Susan Sarandon) and Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) in The Buddy System (1984):
-- Emily: ' Something is missing when you're not in-love .'
-- Joe: ' Yeah, fear and desperation .'
(62) Sam Wheat's (Patrick Swayze) farewell words to Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) before ascending into the light in Ghost (1990): ' It's amazing, Molly! The love inside, you take-it with you .'
(63) Father MacLean (Tom Skerritt) in a sermon in A River Runs Through It (1993): ' We can love completely without complete understanding .'
(64) Monty Woolley (as himself) to Linda Porter (Alexis Smith) in Night and Day (1946): ' Advice to the lovelorn isn't quite my department, Linda. Too dangerous. Love can be a delight, a dilemma, a disease or a disaster .'
(65) Leonard Cummings (Peter Frechette) to his younger brother Charles (Jon Cryer) in No Small Affair (1984): ' Sex has nothing to do with love . Sex washes off .'
(66) Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo) to her friend Cornelius Van Tayl (Lewis Stone) in Romance (1930): ' What is love? It's made of kisses in the dark , of hot breath on the face , of hearts that beat with terribly strong blows. Love is just a beast that you feed all through the night and when the morning comes, love dies .' And later: ' To me love is only a little warmth in all this cold , just a little light in all this darkness, one little minute to lie still in the beloved's arms, one little minute to forget and that's all .'
(67) Sheila Kingston's (Rosie O'Donnell) voice over commentary at the end of Exit to Eden (1994): ' So, what did I learn from this case? No matter what your sexual-preference is true-love is still the ultimate fantasy .'
(68) Garet (William Baldwin) to Sergio (John Leguizamo) in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1994): ' Love isn't buried in time, Sergio. Love is endless and instantaneous .'
(69) Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in-love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that when we fall in-love we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us so that love contains in it the contradiction: the attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past .'
(70) Dr. Louis Levy (Martin Bergmann) at the end of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is we, with our capacity to love , who give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even find joy from simple things like their family , their work , and from the hope that future generations might understand more .'
(71) Connie (Kelly Lynch) to Joe Casella (William Baldwin) in Three of Hearts (1993): ' Love is like some fucking force of nature. You can't trick it ... you sure can't control it . That's the great part, that's the ride . Enjoy it .'
(72) Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973): ' You see two people in-love somehow you feel a little bit of it yourself .'
(73) Marlene Dietrich, as Erica Von Schluetow, to Jean Arthur as Phoebe Frost in A Foreign Affair (1948): ' You know this game of love , if you want to take the advice of an old gambler, some poeple are lucky at-it , some people are jinx; you shouldn't even sit down at the table .'
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