Love Story Quotes

Jennifer Cavalieri: You're gonna flunk out if you don't study.

Oliver Barrett IV: I am studying.

Jennifer Cavalieri: Bullshit. You're looking at my legs.

Oliver Barrett IV: You know, Jenny, you're not that great looking.

Jennifer Cavalieri: I know. But can I help it if you think so?

Jennifer Cavalieri: You look stupid and rich.

Oliver Barrett IV: Well, what if I'm smart and poor?

Jennifer Cavalieri: *I'm* smart and poor.

Oliver Barrett IV: Well what makes you so smart?

Jennifer Cavalieri: I wouldn't go out for coffee with you that's what.

Oliver Barrett IV: Well what if I wasn't even gonna ask you to go out for coffee with me?

Jennifer Cavalieri: Well that's what makes you stupid.

Phil Cavaleri: Amen.

Boy: It hasn't started yet.

Phil Cavaleri: How am I supposed to know? I've never been to a do-it-yourself wedding before.

[first lines]

Oliver Barrett IV: What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?

Oliver Barrett IV: See, I think you're scared. You put up a big glass wall to keep from getting hurt. But it also keeps you from 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.

Jennifer Cavalieri: I care.

Oliver Barrett III: If you marry her now, I'll not give you the time of day.

Oliver Barrett IV: Father, you don't know the time of day!

[walks away]

Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny... I'm sorry.

Jennifer Cavalieri: Don't. Love means never having to say you're sorry.

[last lines]

Oliver Barrett III: 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.

Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny's dead.

Oliver Barrett III: I'm sorry...

Oliver Barrett IV: [cuts him off] Love- love means never having to say you're sorry!

[walks away]

Jennifer Cavalieri: Please, Phil, about the church bit.

Phil Cavaleri: What?

Jennifer Cavalieri: Well, we're kind of negative on it.

Phil Cavaleri: I didn't necessarily mean the Catholic Church.

[to Oliver]

Phil Cavaleri: You know that Jennifer is Catholic? She may have told you that. And her sainted mother always dreamed of... the whole mass rigmarole, but you're... But God would bless this union in any church.

Jennifer Cavalieri: Phil?

Phil Cavaleri: Yeah?

Jennifer Cavalieri: About the God bit.

Phil Cavaleri: Yeah?

Jennifer Cavalieri: We're sort of negative about that, too.

Oliver Barrett IV: Oh, how can you do it?

Jennifer Cavalieri: What?

Oliver Barrett IV: How can you see me and still love me?

Jennifer Cavalieri: That's what it's about, preppy.