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The poet Petrarch probably put it best when he told his beloved Laura, ''We'll always have Paris.'' Hang on, that's not Petrarch -- that's Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. See, the classics make classy Valentines, but face it: Most of us learned more about romance from Nora Ephron than Catullus. So, EW presents this cozy concordance of history's most romantic movie lines (plus a bonus compendium of memorable love achievements). Just don't use them in a bar without consulting your copyright lawyer.
BEST FIRST KISS Sixteen Candles
RUNNER-UP Cruel Intentions (Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar)
BEST 'TOON LOVE Lady and the Tramp
BEST HUNKA HUNKA BURNING SEX Kevin Costner and Sean Young in No Way Out
BEST SEX SCENE THAT NEVER WAS Kelly McGillis and Harrison Ford in Witness
BEST PHONE SEX The Truth About Cats & Dogs
CREEPIEST SEX SCENE Playthings Chucky and Tiffany get it on in Bride of Chucky
BEST POSTCOITAL GLOW Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love
BEST NEW PLACE FOR SEX The kitchen sink (Fatal Attraction)
HOTTEST BATHTUB SEQUENCE Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner in Bull Durham
BEST ON-SCREEN CHEMISTRY Sigourney Weaver and Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously
WORST OFFSCREEN CHEMISTRY An Officer and a Gentleman's Debra Winger and Richard Gere
BEST PLATONIC ROMANCE Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce in Carrington
MOST ROMANTIC SLOW DANCE Robert Redford and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer
RUNNER-UP Rupert Everett and Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding
MOST TWISTED ROMANCE Dead Ringers
RUNNER-UP The Silence of the Lambs
BEST TALE OF OBSESSION Vertigo
RUNNERS-UP Blue Velvet and Boxing Helena
BEST ROMANTIC STALKER Mike White as Buck in Chuck & Buck
MOST DEVOTED SPOUSE Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves
BEST ANALYSIS OF MALE/FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS Billy Crystal's explanation of why a man and a woman can never be ''just friends'' in When Harry Met Sally...
WORST COUPLING Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli in New York, New York
RUNNER-UP Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in Autumn in New York
SUREFIRE ROMANCE KILLERS -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Fatal Attraction
BEST FIRST DATE Nicolas Cage and Cher go to the opera in Moonstruck
RUNNER-UP Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez in crazy/beautiful
BEST ON-SCREEN MARRIAGE William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man
RUNNER-UP Robin Williams and Mary Beth Hurt in The World According to Garp
SECOND-FIDDLE LOVERS WHO SEEM MORE IN LOVE THAN THE LEADS Meg Ryan and Anthony ''Goose'' Edwards in Top Gun
BEST LOVE FROM BEYOND Truly, Madly, Deeply
BEST ROMANTIC-MOVIE GUILTY PLEASURE Revenge with Kevin Costner
RUNNER-UP A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand
MOST UNFULFILLED LOVE Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Age of Innocence
