Pick-up lines

Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding? ~ Casablanca

Pick-up lines are crude and/or comical one-liners used to proposition a stranger for a date or sex, often intended to be humorously offensive- commonly known as icebreakers or Conversation openers. A popular topic of conversation among young same sex groups recounted like jokes ie 'Did you hear about the guy/girl....etc'.

Quotes

• Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
  • Ilsa in Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Warner Bros. 1942, directed by Michael Curtiz, story editor Irene Diamond

• Let’s go somewhere we can be alone. Ah, there doesn’t seem to be anyone on this couch.
  • S. Quentin Quale in Go West with Groucho Marx and June Maccloy. MGM 1940, directed by Edward N. Buzzell.

• Give me a kiss or I’ll sock you.
  • Frank in The Postman Always Rings Twice with John Garfield and Lana Turner. MGM 1946, directed by Tay Garnett.

• If I were to send you flowers... No wait, let me rephrase: If I were to let you suck on my tongue, would you be grateful?
  • Nicolas Cage in Face/Off, directed by John Woo.

• If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?
  • Originally coined by Groucho Marx on an episode of You Bet Your Life, later the title of a chart-topping hit song by The Bellamy Brothers in 1979.

• Do you love as good as you look?
  • Title of another Bellamy Brothers song, this one in 1981.
  • No pen, no paper but you still draw my attention.
  • Your hand looks heavy, can I hold it for you.
  • Is that the sun rising for the second time today, oh wait, it's just you.
  • Jesus turned water into wine and I'm just tryna turn you into mine.
  • You must feel very tired, because you've been running through my mind all night.
  • If you were president of the United States, you’d be Babe-raham Lincoln

See also

• Flirting