42 Memorable Quotes From Your Favorite Holiday Films

'Tis the season of ice-skating dates, fireside kisses, and twinkling lights. There's something about the cold Winter that warms the heart, making the holidays the most romantic time of the year. So it's no surprise that some of our favorite Christmas movies have love-filled moments and some of our favorite rom-coms take place during the season of snow and Santa. As we cuddle with our loved ones by the fire to watch classic Christmassy flicks — from Christmas in Connecticut to The Holiday — let's get in the mood for mistletoe with our favorite lines on love from holiday movies!

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Sarah and Harry, Love Actually
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Sarah and Harry, Love Actually

Harry: "Tell me, exactly, how long it is that you've been working here?"

Sarah: "Two years, seven months, three days, and, I suppose, what . . . two hours?"

Harry: "And how long have you been in love with Karl, our enigmatic chief designer?"

Sarah: "Ahm, two years, seven months, three days, and, I suppose, an hour and 30 minutes."

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Mark, Bridget Jones's Diary
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Mark, Bridget Jones's Diary

"I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences. But the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are."

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Mark, Love Actually
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Mark, Love Actually

(With posters:) "But for now, let me say / without hope or agenda / just because it's Christmas / (and at Christmas you tell the truth) / to me, you are perfect."

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Scott/Santa Claus and Cupid, The Santa Clause 2
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Scott/Santa Claus and Cupid, The Santa Clause 2

Scott/Santa Claus: "Hey, Cupid, why don't you shoot me with one of your darts, and then I'll fall in love?"

Cupid: "First of all, they're not darts; they're arrows. Second of all, no can do."

Scott/Santa Claus: "Why not?"

Cupid: "Because they have no effect on us. Believe me, if they did, I would've shot myself in the butt, met a nice girl, left business years ago."

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Sam, Love Actually
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Sam, Love Actually

"But you know, the thing about romance is . . . people only get together right at the very end."

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Jack and Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Jack and Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack (singing): "My dearest friend, if you don't mind . . . I'd like to join you by your side. Where we can gaze into the stars . . . "

Sally: "And sit together, now and forever. For it is plain, as anyone can see. We're simply meant to be."

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Ellen and Audrey, Christmas Vacation
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Ellen and Audrey, Christmas Vacation

Audrey: "Do you sleep with your brother? Do you know how sick and twisted that is?"

Ellen: "Well, I'm sleeping with your father. Don't be so dramatic."

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Scott/Santa Claus, The Santa Clause 2
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Scott/Santa Claus, The Santa Clause 2

"A needlepoint sweater and a minivan. I'll be back [from this date] in about eight minutes."

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Graham and Amanda, The Holiday
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Graham and Amanda, The Holiday

Graham: "Long-distance relationships can work, you know."

Amanda: "Really? I can't make one work when I live in the same house with someone."

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Judy and Phil, White Christmas
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Judy and Phil, White Christmas

Judy: "But, don't you think we ought to . . . oh . . . kiss or something?"

Phil: "Uh . . . n-n-not until it's absolutely necessary."

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Jamie and Aurelia, Love Actually
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Jamie and Aurelia, Love Actually

Jamie (in English): "It's my favorite time of day, driving you."

Aurelia (in Portuguese): "It's the saddest part of my day, leaving you."

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Mel and Kelli, This Christmas
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Mel and Kelli, This Christmas

Mel: "So, technically, you slept with Santa?"

Kelli: "Well, I didn't know he was Santa at the time . . . but technically, I guess I did."

Mel: "Well, ho, ho, ho!"

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Elizabeth and John, Christmas in Connecticut
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Elizabeth and John, Christmas in Connecticut

Elizabeth: "John, when you're kissing me, don't talk about plumbing."

John: "What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?"

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Bridget and Mark, Bridget Jones's Diary
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Bridget and Mark, Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget: "Wait a minute . . . Nice boys don't kiss like that."

Mark: "Oh, yes, they f*cking do."

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Karen, Love Actually
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Karen, Love Actually

"Get a grip. People hate sissies. No one's ever gonna shag you if you cry all the time."

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Buddy, Elf
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Buddy, Elf

"I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!"

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Bridget, Bridget Jones's Diary
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Bridget, Bridget Jones's Diary

"This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers."

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Darryl and Brad, Four Christmases
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Darryl and Brad, Four Christmases

Darryl: "Look, Brad. I'm not trying to be your father; you already got one of those. I'm just hoping for a chance to be your friend."

Brad: "You were my friend, Darryl. You were my best friend. We grew up together, we rode bikes together, we used to smell each others hands. But now you're sleeping with my mom and it's a little bit weird for me. Can you appreciate that?"

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Buddy, Elf
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Buddy, Elf

"I think you're really beautiful, and I feel really warm when I'm around you, and my tongue swells up. . . . So . . . Do you wanna eat food?"

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Sam, Love Actually
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Sam, Love Actually

"Let's go get the sh*t kicked out of us by love."

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Jamie, Love Actually
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Jamie, Love Actually

(In Portuguese:) "Beautiful Aurelia, I've come here with a view of asking you to marriage me. I know I seems an insane person — because I hardly knows you — but sometimes things are so transparency, they don't need evidential proof. And I will inhabit here, or you can inhabit with me in England."

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Jonathan and Sara, Serendipity
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Jonathan and Sara, Serendipity

Jonathan: "So are you gonna meet your boyfriend now or what?"

Sara: "No, I think he's out probably doing what you're doing."

Jonathan: "Getting a crush on somebody else's girlfriend? No, I'm sorry, I just meant I had a really nice time."

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Iris, The Holiday
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Iris, The Holiday

"I have found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said, 'Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' What an extraordinary thought."

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Jake and Officer Max, I'll Be Home For Christmas
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Jake and Officer Max, I'll Be Home For Christmas

Jake: "Say something romantic."

Officer Max: "Huh."

Jake: "Say something apologetic."

Officer Max: "Huh."

Jake: "SAY SOMETHING ENGLISH."

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Kate and Jack, The Family Man
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Kate and Jack, The Family Man

Kate: "How can you do that?"

Jack: "What?"

Kate: "Look at me like you haven't seen me every day for the last 13 years."

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Phil and Bob, White Christmas
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Phil and Bob, White Christmas

Bob: "You don't expect me to get serious with the kind of characters you and Rita have been throwing at me, do you?"

Phil: "Well, there've been some nice girls, too, you know."

Bob: "Oh yeah, yeah. Like that nuclear scientist we just met out in the hall."

Phil: "All right, they didn't go to college. They didn't go to Smith."

Bob: "Go to Smith? She couldn't even spell it."

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The Prime Minister and the President, Love Actually
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The Prime Minister and the President, Love Actually

Prime Minister: "I'm not sure that politics and dating really go together."

The President: "Really? I never found that."

Prime Minister: "Yeah, well, the difference is you're still sickeningly handsome, whereas I look increasingly like my Aunt Mildred."

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Kate, Four Christmases
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Kate, Four Christmases

"We have spent so much of our relationship creating all these boundaries, you know? And making sure that we don't limit ourselves with responsibility and obligation, and I don't wanna live like that anymore. Because that's not loving at all."

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Clark, Christmas Vacation
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Clark, Christmas Vacation

"Yeah, it is a bit nipply out. I mean nippy. What am I saying, nipple?"

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Pam and Colin, Bridget Jones's Diary
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Pam and Colin, Bridget Jones's Diary

Pam: "I thought I might ask if we could have another go. Obviously with some effort on your part to pay a bit more attention to me. I do realize what I'm like sometimes. It doesn't help that you and Bridget have your lovely grown-up club of two and always say, 'What's silly old Mummy gone and done this time?' You used to be mad about me. You couldn't get enough of me. What do you think?"

Colin: "I don't know, Pam. I just don't know now. It's been very hard. . . . [Pam starts crying.] I'm joking, you daft cow. Pam, I just don't work without you."

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Judy, Love Actually
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Judy, Love Actually

"All I want for Christmas is you."

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Kate, Home Alone
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Kate, Home Alone

"This is Christmas. The season of perpetual hope. And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike. If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son."

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Dudley, The Bishop's Wife
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Dudley, The Bishop's Wife

"When an Immortal finds himself envying the Mortal he is entrusted to his care, it's a danger signal. Take her in your arms and hold her tight. . . . Kiss her for me, you lucky Henry!"

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Charlie and Lucy, A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Charlie and Lucy, A Charlie Brown Christmas

Lucy: "You DO think I'm beautiful, don't you, Charlie Brown?"

Charlie: (Pauses.)

Lucy: "You didn't answer me right away. You had to think about it first, didn't you? If you really had thought I was beautiful, you would've spoken right up. I know when I've been insulted. I KNOW WHEN I'VE BEEN INSULTED."

Charlie: "Good grief."

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Jim and Linda, Holiday Inn
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Jim and Linda, Holiday Inn

Linda: "You better go inside; it's cold and you don't have a coat."

Jim: (Kisses her, moves back.) "Well, I don't need a coat anymore."

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Fred, Miracle on 34th Street
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Fred, Miracle on 34th Street

"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial; it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."

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Lucy, While You Were Sleeping
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Lucy, While You Were Sleeping

"Peter once asked me when I fell in love with Jack. And I told him, 'It was while you were sleeping.'"

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The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Cindy Lou Who: (Kisses the Grinch on the cheek.) "Your cheek's so . . . "

The Grinch: "I know. Hairy."

Cindy Lou Who: "No."

The Grinch: "Greasy? Stinky? Do I have a zit?"

Cindy Lou Who: "No. Warm."

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George and Mary, It's a Wonderful Life
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George and Mary, It's a Wonderful Life

George: "What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary."

Mary: "I'll take it. Then what?"

George: "Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see . . . and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes at the ends of your hair . . . Am I talking too much?"

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Miles, The Holiday
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Miles, The Holiday

"Iris, if you were a melody . . . I used only the good notes."

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Mia, Love Actually
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Mia, Love Actually

"I'll just be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed."