14 Most Romantic Movie Lines?- Page 2

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 1:22pm

We have an eclectic sense of romantic!

Am loving all of your posts.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 3:25pm

Alfred (Jimmy Stewart): My dearest sweetheart, Klara, I can't stand it any longer. Take your key and open post office box 237 and take me out of my envelope... and kiss me. ...and take me out of my envelope and kiss me. - THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

[VeraCharles3]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 4:17pm

Ok, here are a few lines from films that always makes me sigh with happiness!

Julien: Would you stay with me for another drink? But you know you're gonna miss your flight?

Nora: I know.

Broken English (2007)

Glass Man: So, my little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete's sake!

Amelie (2001)

Scudder: And now we shan't never be parted. It's finished

Maurice (1987)

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 6:12pm

Celine (Julie Delpy): Baby you are gonna miss that plane.

Jesse (Ethan Hawke): I know. BEFORE SUNSET

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 11/15/13 at 11:49pm

Melvin Udall: I've got a really great compliment for you, and it's true.

Carol Connelly: I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.

Melvin Udall: Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Okay, here I go: Clearly, a mistake. I've got this, what - ailment? My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in fifty or sixty percent of the cases, a pill really helps. I *hate* pills, very dangerous thing, pills. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about pills. Hate. My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never... all right, well, you were there, you know what you said. Well, my compliment to you is, the next morning, I started taking the pills.

Carol Connelly: I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.

Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.

Carol Connelly: ...That's maybe the best compliment of my life.

Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 9:14am

Honore Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier): I'll tell you about that blue villa, Mamita. I was so much in love with you, I wanted to marry you. Yes, it's true. I was beginning to think of marriage. Imagine, marriage, ME! Oh, no! I was really desperate! I had to do something. And what I did was the soprano!

Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold): Thank you, Honore. That was the most charming and endearing excuse for infidelity I've ever heard.

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Gigi (Leslie Caron): I'd rather be miserable with you than miserable without you.

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[last lines]

[after a long while, Gaston returns to Madame Alvarez's apartment]

Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jourdain): May I come in?

[Gigi shrinks into a corner, hoping to be spared]

Madame Alvarez: Please, Gaston... no papers... no scandal.

Gaston Lachaille: Madame, will you do me the honour, the favour... give me the infinite joy of bestowing on me... Gigi's hand in marriage?

[Gigi, filled with relief and joy, draws to Gaston's side]

Madame Alvarez: [smiles] Thank Heaven!

["Thank Heaven for Little Girls" plays again]

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 9:27am

I'm with you on Gigi, Henrik. I love that movie, and I know people freak out now over her "being trained to be a high-class whore," but they don't get the era, the options available to any women back then, or what it really meant to be a courtesan or mistress.

And in the end, even though Gigi rejects the idea of becoming a mistress, she "would rather be miserable with the man she loves than miserable with out him." A huge sacrifice, going against her sensibilities and goals. And Gaston goes against his past behavior and proposes to the woman he loves. They break the traditional molds and decide to do it their way.

And please, how many people are "courtesans" today? (Male and female.) More than would admit it. And they're usually the ones who squawk the loudest about not understanding stuff like this.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 9:58am

I'm a sappy girl about some romantic lines, even if they seem odd.

Favorite modern line:
"Marry me, because I'd like to date you." - The Proposal

Favorite (right now) classic line:
"I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there..." - An Affair to Remember

Favorite Austen adaptation line:
"Tell me, have I no chance of succeeding, my dearest Emma? For that is what you always have been and always will be. My most beloved Emma... I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." - 2009 adaptation of Emma




For taz: a cute interview with Andrew Lincoln talking about Love Actually 10 years later Updated On: 11/16/13 at 09:58 AM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 10:58am

Best12, let them freak out. There are stories about women being trained to live through men. There are women who live through men- and men who live through men,and through women. People who are kept, taken care of, etc. Then and now. Would these people prefer their stories were hidden rather than explored, let alone explored through a narrative like Gigi in which the heroine boldly resists that life, says no to it, at least at first, even though she is in love with the man offering her that life, and, in a turn consistent with bourgeoise family values, gets what she wants, marriage and respectability. And as for her age, there is a complete disconnect, with people forgetting that women of Gigi's age in her time were often married, with at least one child and pregnant with the next (including many of our own ancestors). There is a difference between telling a story with a subject one finds distasteful and that story approving of that subject and a story, like Gigi, which just tells a story without approval or disapproval but with humanity and a need to tell how that subject impacts those confronted with it.





Updated On: 11/16/13 at 10:58 AM

[NoName3]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 5:38pm

"Desiree, I’m sorry. I should never have come. To flirt with rescue when one has no intention of being saved. Do try to forgive me."

Len Cariou in the film version of A Little Night Music

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/16/13 at 5:41pm

"Let's go in and make some spaghe…tti…." - Steel Magnolias

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/17/13 at 10:14am

Daniel (Peter Finch): When you're at school and you want to quit, people say 'You're going to hate it out in the world.' Well, I didn't believe them and I was right. When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be grown up, and they said 'Childhood is the best time of your life.' Well, it wasn't. And now, I want his company and they say, 'What's half a loaf? You're well shot of him'; and I say 'I know that... but I miss him, that's all' and they say 'He never made you happy' and I say 'But I am happy, apart from missing him. You might throw me a pill or two for my cough.'
[pauses, smiles]
Daniel: All my life, I've been looking for somebody courageous, resourceful.
[pause, thinks]
Daniel: He's not it... but something. We were something.
[pause]
Daniel: I only came about my cough. SUNDAY BOODY SUNDAY

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/17/13 at 8:57pm

"MURIEL
I'm going back to Sydney and I want Rhonda to come, too, if she will.

RHONDA'S MOTHER
Muriel, you can't just barge in here and take Rhonda away from the people who love her, who cared for her when she needed us.

RHONDA
Yes, she can! I'm sorry, Mum, you know I love you, but you drive me crazy.
(to the girlfriends assembled)
And you three, what a bunch of cocksuckers!"

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(No, I don't think Muriel and Rhonda are secret lesbians; but their friendship is one of the great screen romances.)