Love Quotes

For the favors for our wedding, Vincent came up with 175 love quotes that were framed and given to each guest.  It  was one of my favorite touches of my wedding.  I think they are all beautiful, but I've never had a place to list them all until now - here they are!

1. "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." -The Princess Bride

 2. "Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds. And you cannot break that, not with a thousand swords." -The Princess Bride

 3. "True love is the greatest thing in the world… except for a nice MLT, mutton-lettuce-and-tomato, when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe." -The Princess Bride

 4. "That day she was amazed to discover that when he was saying 'as you wish', what he meant was 'I love you.' Even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back." -The Princess Bride

 5. "Above all things, I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!" -Moulin Rouge

6. "I have crossed oceans of time to find you." -Dracula

7. "Was that cannon fire or is it my heart pounding? -Casablanca

8. "Here's looking at you, kid." -Casablanca

9. "Do you know what's wrong with you?" … "What?" … "Nothing." -Charade

10. "You should see you face right now." … "What wrong with it?" … "It's perfect." -Charade

11. "I love you." … "I know." -Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

12. "Why are you so good to me?" … "You're my girl." … "I'll always be your girl." -Forrest Gump

13. "You should be kissed, and often, and by one who knows how." -Gone with the Wind

14. "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever." -The Crow

15. "Love.  It's walking between the raindrops.  It makes the impossible absurdly possible.  It's why we get up in the morning and why we go to sleep at night counting the minutes until we can get up and do the whole thing all over again. We go through storms that would normally blow us off our feet, but if we're lucky, we just walk between the raindrops" -Between the Raindrops

16. "Right now two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you with two questions: who's this girl and why is she dancing with the President." … "Well, the two hundred pairs of eyes aren't focused on me, they're focused on you. And the answers are Sydney Ellen Wade, and because she said yes." -The American President

17. "You make me want to be a better man." -As Good as it Gets

18. "I don't understand how you can take peopl's orders and bring them their food and how they miss that they've just met the most wonderful woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good." -As Good as it Gets

19. "My angel, my all, my very self… my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, ever thine, ever mine, ever ours." -Immortal Beloved

20. "I will find you. No matter how long, no matter how far, I will find you!" -The Last of the Mohicans

21. "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of the world alone." -The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

22. "I've lived a thousand lifetimes to find a soul like yours. A soul so pure, a soul so brave. An angel that takes my breath away. I want to lie with you forever; my passion knows no bounds. I want to shield you from all evil and protect this love we've found. Love me with your spirit and promise we'll never part. We are not the same as others; we are forever lovers." -The Crow: Angels on Fire

23. "I will love you until the end of time." -Moulin Rouge

24. "My dearest friend, if you don't mind I'd like to join you by your side where we can gaze into the stars and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see… we're simply meant to be." -The Nightmare Before Christmas

25. "I don't understand, I'm supposed to be beautiful." … "But you are beautiful!" -Shrek

26. "Te adoro, Aton." … "Te adoro, Maria." -West Side Story

27. "I love that you get cold when it's seventy-one degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after spending the day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night." -When Harry met Sally…

28. "… and he'll carry me away to his castle where we'll live happily ever after." -Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

29. "It was nice to meet you. Surreal, but nice." -Notting Hill

30. "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." -Notting Hill

31. "You are the tenant of my heart- often behind on the rent, but impossible to evict." -Playing by Heart

32. "The prince had been waiting until she came, and he took her hand and danced with her alone and when anyone else came to invite her he said "she is my partner." -Cinderella

33. "The more love we receive, the more love we shine forth; so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of loving is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love for, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other." -Dante Alighieri

34. "I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You're the only reason I am. You are all my reasons." -A Beautiful Mind

35. "Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."- A Beautiful Mind

36. "Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data." … "I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance." - A Beautiful Mind

37. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred less one day because I never want to live one day without you." -Winnie the Pooh

38. "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Velveteen Rabbit

39. "I'm done falling in love with you." … "Why?" … "I'm submersed in it now." -Between the Raindrops

40. "Two lives have begun now, two hearts become one now, one passion, one dream, one thing forever true: I love you." -Beauty and the Beast

41. "You'll come down or I'll break the door down." … "Master, I could be wrong, but that may not be the best way to win the girl's affection." -Beauty and the Beast

42. "Even death won't part us now." -West Side Story

43. "Do you remember when we first met?" … "I thought I had strayed into a dream." -The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

44. "I don't know what to say." … "Just say that you love me." -Superman II

45. "It was a million tiny little things that when you add them all up, just meant that we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like magic." -Sleepless in Seattle

46. "Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses that have been rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." -The Princess Bride

47. "Romance? Oh, there's the usual things: flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep." -Beauty and the Beast

48. "You fall in love her, she falls in love with you, and poof, the spell is broken. We'll be human again by midnight!" - Beauty and the Beast

49. "This is a dream." … "Then it is a good dream." -The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

50. "You should know that the only reason I got dressed up for this thing was that I wanted to look beautiful for you." -Daredevil

51. "My heart is broken." … "I can fix that." -Holes

52. "I'm yours forever." … "Only forever?" … "Forever and ever." -The Crow

53. "This is crazy." … "I know. It doesn't make any sense. That's why I trust it." -Titanic

54. "It was the first time Gilbert had said "my wife" to anybody but Anne, and he narrowly escaped bursting with the pride of it." - L.M. Montgomery

55. "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

56. "You Sir, are supposed to be charming." … "And we, princess, are supposed to live happily ever after." … "Says who?" … "You know, I don't know." -Ever After

57. "Anne laughed and slipped away to Lover's Lane, where Gilbert found her; and neither of them seemed to entertain much fear, or hope, that their married life would cure them of romance." -L.M. Montgomery

58. "But tonight our lovers thought only of joy and never of sorrow. For the morrow was their wedding day." -L.M. Montgomery

59. "And I know it's true, that visions are seldom what they seem; but if I know you, I know what you'll do: you'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream."      -Sleeping Beauty

60. "Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears." -Edgar Allan Poe

61. "Happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you." -You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

62. "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo

63. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

64. "Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same."  -Vincent van Gogh

65. "Love is friendship set on fire." -French Proverb

66. "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." -When Harry Met Sally…

67. "You were the song all along, and before this song dies: I should tell you, I should tell you: I have always loved you. You can see it in my eyes." -Rent

68. Live in my house, I'll be your shelter. Just pay me back with one thousand kisses. Be my lover and I'll cover you." -Rent

69. "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anon

70. "Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove; of golden sands, and crystal brooks, with silken lines, and silver hooks." -John Donne

71. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland

72. "When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out." -Elizabeth Bowen

73. "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness." -Benjamin Franklin

74. "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends." -Homer

75. "They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. That's true." -Big Fish

76. "I don't believe in this." … "But I do. It has always brought me luck. Maybe it will bring me you." -The Matrix Reloaded

77. "The rain that brings you here is Heaven-blessed. The skies clear and I'm at rest. A breath away from where you are, I've come home from so far." -Les Misérables

78. "Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Say the word and I will follow you. Say you need me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go too. Love me, that's all I ask of you." -The Phantom of the Opera

79. "I found my happy thought. Do you want to know what it was? It was you." -Hook

80. "If you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for a drink." … "If you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for red lights." -The West Wing

81. "You had me at 'Hello'." -Jerry Maguire

82. "Rise, my lady, it is a new day." … "It is a new world!" -Shakespeare in Love

83. "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One." -City of Angels

84. "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -Jeanne  Moreau

85. "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." -Karen Sunde

86. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." -Peter Ustinov

87. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Robert Frost

88. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." -Sophocles

89. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments: love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." -William Shakespeare

90. "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

91. "Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi

92. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu

93. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman

94. "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." -Mistinguett

95. "You are sunlight, and I moon, joined by the gods of fortune, sharing the sky. We have been blessed, you and I." -Miss Saigon

96. "You are sunlight, and I moon, lighting the sky with the flame of love." -Miss Saigon

97. "God was showing off when he made you." -Keeping the Faith

98. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein

99. "The stars in a hazy heaven tremble above you, while he is whispering darling, I love you...and on your lips you keep a kiss, all your life you'll dream of this lovely, lovely night. " -Cinderella

100. "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. " -Leo Tolstoy

101. "Love: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Mark Twain

102. "I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet."  -William Butler Yeats

103. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

104. "My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife." -Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

105. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." -Henry Ward Beecher

106. "Real love stories never have endings." -Richard Bach

107. "The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one." -Honore De Balzac

108. "Love is the beauty of the soul." -St. Augustine

109. "In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes." -Elizabeth Ashley

110. "Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." -Henri Frederic Amiel

111. "Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred." -Barbara De Angelis

112. "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." -Barbara De Angelis

113. "I love you, not or what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -Roy Croft

114. "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

115. "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." -Winston Churchill

116. "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

117. "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. " - Michael Leunig

118. "Love is like pi- natural, irrational, and very important." -Lisa Hoffman

119. "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes- and the stars through his soul." -Victor Hugo

120. "Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." -Unknown

121. "There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy: her heart." - Milk Money

122. "To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up." -Ogden Nash

123. "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." - Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

124. "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave." - Martin Luther

125. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

126. "Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." - G. Moore

127. "Soul meets soul on lover's lips." -Percy Shelly

128. "A simple I love you means more than money." -Frank Sinatra

129. "I love thee, I love but thee; With a love that shall not die; Till the sun grows cold; And the stars grow old." -William Shakespeare

130. "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, But still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep burning and unquenchable." -Bruce Lee

131. "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes." -Byron

132. "To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten." - Anonymous

133. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." -Romeo and Juliet

134. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -Josiah G. Holland

135. "Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time." -Anonymous

136. "A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love." - Anonymous

137. "Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale." -Anonymous

138. "True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen... they release the ink that flows from within their heart." -Anonymous

139. "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." -Mark Twain

140. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert A. Heinlein

141. "If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true...In this life I was loved by you." -Bette Midler

142. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." -Maulana Rumi

143. "The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." -Unknown

144. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." -Janos Arany

145. "This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life." -Sir Hugh Walpole

146. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -Josiah G. Holland

147. "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" -Henry David Thoreau

148. "As long as there's the two of us, we've got the world and all its charms. And when the world is through with us, we've got each other's arms." -The Glory of Love

149. "You've got to laugh a little, cry a little, until the clouds roll by a little. That's the story of, that's the glory of love." -The Glory of Love

150. "You're still a mystery, but there's something so easy in how you're sweet to me; I feel completed, like it's something I needed for this heart of mine. -Heart of Mine

151. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Annie

152. "There ain't nothin' that I wouldn't do: go to the ends of the earth for you, make you happy, make your dreams come true, to make you feel my love." -To Make You Feel My Love

153. "It doesn't matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other." -Good Will Hunting

154. "Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen." -Elton John

155. "I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now I am at the liberty to do so, that my heart is and will always be yours." -Jane Austin

156. "Every story, new or ancient, bagatelle or work of art, all are tales of human failing, all are tales of love at heart." -Aida

157. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." -Unknown

158. "All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" -Peanuts

159. "Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

160. "Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole." -Tea Rose

161. "To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." -Francois Mauriac

162. "There is no greater invitation to love than loving first." -St. Augustine

163. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." -Francois Mocuriac

164. "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." -Willa Cather

165. "When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love. True love." -Robert Fulghum

166. "Your name is of no importance to me, so long as I may call you my own." -A Knight's Tale

167. "Hope guides me. It is what guides me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you leave my sight it will not be the last time I look upon you." -A Knight's Tale

168. "All I want for Christmas is you." -Love Actually

169. "I'm George. George McFly. I'm your density… I mean, your destiny." -Back to the Future

170. "I knew it was you. You have your father's eyes." … "And my mother's ears, but the rest belongs to you." -Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

171. "You can't just buy me a guitar ever time you screw up, you know." ... "Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine." -10 Things I Hate About You

172. "Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl." -Good Will Hunting

173. "If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever." -A Knight's Tale

174. "A woman happily in love, she burns the souffle. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven." -Sabrina

175. "Can I say for a while?" ... "You can stay forever." -Notting Hill