make love to

Definition

make love to rate

(Adult / Slang)

2. Or: make love with , to have sexual intercourse with (someone). See copulation for synonyms.

QUOTES:

(1) Gaston (Louis Jordan) to Gigi (Leslie Caron) in Gigi (1958): ' The only people who make love all the time are liars.'

(2) Mrs. Flax (Cher) to her daughter Charlotte (Winona Ryder) learning to drive in Mermaids (1990): ' Charlotte, you drive like old people make love.'

(3) Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) in The Professionals (1966): ' Do you realise people are the only animals who make love face to face.'

(4) Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Gavin (Danny DeVito) in The War of the Roses (1989):
-- Barbara Rose: 'Have you ever made angry love?'
-- Gavin D'Amato: 'Is there any other way?'

(5) Shyster lawyer Roland T. Flakfizer (John Torturo) flirting with the wealthy and older Mrs. Lilian Oglethorpe (Nancy Marchand) in Brain Donors (1992):
-- Roland: ' Mrs. Oglethorpe, you look wonderful. I could make love to you right here and now.'
-- Lilian: ' Roland, please! Let's keep this on a professional level.'
-- Roland: ' Very well then. I'll charge you fifty bucks a pop.'

(6) Harris B. Telemaker (Steve Martin) going away for the weekend with the much younger and not too bright SanDeE (Sarah Jessica Parker) in L.A. Story (1991):
-- Harris: ' SanDeE, I think it should just be a vacation, good friends. I don't think we should make love. All right? '
-- SanDeE: ' OK. We'll just have sex.'

(7) Regina (Mimi Rogers) telling prison guard Collin Reeve (Billy Zane) about the husband she killed accidentally in Reflections in the Dark (1995): ' I loved him. God I loved him, and he loved me, desperately, completely, well, as best he could for a man who only knew how to make love in a bed. At least he said it was love. He always said the right thing.'

(8) Annie Savoy's (Susan Sarandon) voice over monologue at the beginning of Bull Durham (1988): ' Making love is like hitting a baseball. You've just got to relax and concentrate.'

(9) Gershon Legman (1963): ' Make love, not war.'

(10) Pro birth-control slogan: ' Make love, not babies.'