Relationship Quotes
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Relationships can be as delightful and tangled as a plateful of spaghetti. Click on any relationship quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"'Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"A lion does not ask permission before he eats a zebra."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"

"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller

"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho

"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."Source: The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt

"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."Source: The Palm Beach Story | Speaker: John D. Hackensacker III

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey

"Everyone keeps saying that. It must be a conspiracy."Source: Jessica Jones | Speaker: Jessica Jones

"Face it, girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."Source: Fried Green Tomatoes | Speaker: Evelyn Couch

"Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night."Source: All About Eve | Speaker: Margo Channing

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!"Source: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Speaker: President Merkin Muffley

"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."Source: How do I love Thee (Sonnet 43) | Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you came home."Source: Duck Soup | Speaker: Rufus T. Firefly

"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me"Source: "As Long As You Love Me" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems."Source: True Blood | Speaker: Pam Swynford de Beaufort

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes

"I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field."Source: Feel So Close | Speaker: Calvin Harris

"I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."Source: A Place in the Sun | Speaker: George Eastman

"I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."Source: Hannah and Her Sisters | Speaker: Mickey

"I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift."Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Piper Chapman

"I just can't get you outta my head."Source: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Speaker: Kylie Minogue

"I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"I love you only because it's you the one I love"Source: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | Author: Pablo Neruda

"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."Source: Manhattan | Speaker: Isaac Davis

"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice

"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer

"I would rather be with the people of this town than with the finest people in the world."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Mayor Deebs

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough

"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time."Source: Broadcast News | Speaker: Aaron Altman

"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott

"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy

"I'm Larry, this is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl."Source: Newheart | Speaker: Larry

"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"If suddenlySource: If You Forget Me | Author: Pablo Neruda
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you."

"If the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death."Source: The Hotel New Hampshire | Author: John Irving

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."Source: Rabbit, Run | Author: John Updike

"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé

"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey

"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."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."Source: Arsenic and Old Lace | Speaker: Mortimer Brewster

"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling

"It's a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear."Source: Cheers | Speaker: Norm Peterson

"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright

"It's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men."Source: I'm No Angel | Speaker: Tira

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."Source: The Godfather: Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone

"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia."Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Speaker: Butch Cassidy

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump

"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman

"Long walks at night—that's what good for the soul"Source: And the Moon and the Stars and the World | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford

"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney

"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley

"Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day."Source: Napoleon Dynamite | Speaker: Kip Dynamite

"Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half."Source: Ninotchka | Speaker: Count Leon d'Algout

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez

"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."Source: Now, Voyager | Speaker: Charlotte Vale

"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: The Phantom

"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin

"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler

"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Vito Corleone

"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Ricky Fitts

"That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet."Source: Juno | Speaker: Rollo

"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."Source: The Usual Suspects | Speaker: Roger "Verbal" Kint

"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man."Source: Son of a Preacher Man | Speaker: Dusty Springfield

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac

"There are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition."Source: Pillow Talk | Speaker: Jan Morrow

"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando."Source: Fernando | Speaker: ABBA

"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart

"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky

"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."Source: Mother Night | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Source: Seduction of the Minotaur | Author: Anaïs Nin

"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn

"What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell Nylons."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Harry Burns

"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice | Speaker: Frank Chambers

"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"Source: Hell's Angels | Speaker: Helen

"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy

"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: George Bailey

"Your love keeps lifting me higher."Source: "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Speaker: Jackie Wilson