Don't. Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Note: the bolded line is ranked #13 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Oliver Barrett IV
Ryan O'Neal · 9 quotes
Jennifer Cavelleri
6 quotes
Most scenes together: Oliver Barrett IV & Jennifer Cavelleri (6)
Love Story quotes
You're gonna flunk out if you don't study.
I am studying.
Bullshit. You're looking at my legs.
You know, Jenny, you're not that great looking.
I know. But can I help it if you think so?
Oliver Barrett III
If you marry her now, I'll not give you the time of day.
Father, you don't know the time of day! [walks away]
Hey what makes you so sure I went to prep school?
You look stupid and rich.
Actually I'm smart and poor.
Uh-uh, I'm smart and poor.
What makes you so smart?
I wouldn't go for coffee with you.
Yeah well I wouldn't ask you.
Well, that's what makes you stupid.
See, I think you're scared. You put up a big glass wall to keep from getting hurt. But it also keeps you form getting touched. It's a risk isn't it, Jenny? At least, I had the guts to admit what I felt. Someday you're gonna have to come up with the courage to admit you care.
I care.
Why did you leave the Church?
I don't know--I never really joined. I mean, I guess I never thought that there's any world better than this one. I mean, what can be better than Mozart, or Bach, or you?
Phil Cavelleri
Amen.
Boy
It hasn't started yet.
Phil Cavelleri
How am I supposed to know? I've never been to a do-it-yourself wedding before.
Phil Cavelleri
But God would bless this union in any church.
Er, Phil, about the God bit...
Phil Cavelleri
Yeah?
Well, we're sort of negative about that, too.
Phil Cavelleri
About God? About anybody's god?
See, we neither...one of us believe...and we won't be hypocrites.
Oliver Barrett III
[last lines]
Oliver. Why didn't you tell me? I made a couple of calls, and as soon as I found out, I jumped right in the car. Oliver, I want to help.
Jenny's dead.
Oliver Barrett III
I'm sorry--
Love-- Love means never having to say you're sorry.
[first lines]
What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?