Love means never having to say you're sorry
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"Love means not ever having to say you're sorry." is a line from the novel and 1970 film Love Story starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal.
The quote was voted #13 in the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes, a list of top movie quotes.[1]
The quote appears twice in the film. Once toward the middle when MacGraw's character Jennifer Cavilleri says it, and again as the last line in the film, repeated by O'Neal's character Oliver Barrett IV as a tribute to Jennifer.
The quote is parodied in The Simpsons episode "Catch 'Em if You Can", where the Simpson family watch Love Story; when the line is spoken Lisa objects, "No it doesn't!"
The quote is parodied in an episode of Rugrats, and spoken by Angelica Pickles: "Being bad means never having to say you're sorry."
The quote is parodied towards the end of the 1972 screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?, which also stars Ryan O'Neal. Barbra Streisand's character coos that "Love means never having to say you're sorry" while batting her eyelashes, and O'Neal's character responds, deadpan, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."
John Lennon said, "Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."[2]
In Warren Ellis's comic Doktor Sleepless, the good Doktor says, "Hate means never having to say you're sorry."
In Season 3 of the critically acclaimed Showtime Series Weeds, the drug dealer 'U-Turn' says "Thug means never having to say you're sorry," after Nancy apologizes for breaking something of Haylia and Conrad's.
