Love Story Quotes
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Source: Love Story
Speaker: Jenny
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Context
This line is spoken by Jenny, played by Ali MacGraw, in the film Love Story, directed by Arthur Hiller (1970).
In Love Story, the most melodramatic love story ever, boy meets girl, girl gets leukemia, boy loses girl… to death. (Yeah, bring the tissues.) Before the whole death part, the couple gets into a fight, and when Oliver rushes to apologize, Jenny gives him the worst relationship advice ever: "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Be careful, though. The movie is based on a book, and the phrase was a little different in the book: "Love means not ever having to say you're sorry."
Where you've heard it
You've heard this saying in a variety of relationship and self-esteem self-help articles, whether the author agrees with the sentiment or not. And, as you might imagine, there's a whole tumblr tag for this quote.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
Worst. Relationship. Advice. Ever.