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These quotes kill two birds with one stone: use them to ace essays and woo your crush. Click on any love 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.
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."Source: The Fault in our Stars | Author: John Green
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—"Source: Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art | Author: John Keats
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."Source: Luke 10:30, 33-34 | Author: Luke
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round."Source: Fat Bottomed Girls | Speaker: Queen
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."Source: How do I love Thee (Sonnet 43) | Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I will always love you."Source: I Will Always Love You | Speaker: Dolly Parton (and Whitney Houston)
"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 all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"It's something about the way you look tonight."Source: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John
"Love the sinner and hate the sin."Source: Letters of Saint Augustine (#211) | Author: Augustine of Hippo
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Oh Philadelphia freedom, shine on me, I love you."Source: "Philadelphia Freedom" | Speaker: Elton John
"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen."Source: "Dancing Queen" | Speaker: ABBA
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."Source: "A Girl I Knew" | Author: J.D. Salinger
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."Source: The Fault in Our Stars | Author: John Green
"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast."Source: Beauty and the Beast | Speaker: Mrs. Potts
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Source: A Farewell to Arms | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."Source: Crime and Punishment | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen