Love means never having to say you're sorry

In 2005, it was voted #13 in the American Film Institute's list AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.

[1][2] The band Sounds of Sunshine had a Top 40 hit in the United States with a song titled "Love Means You Never Have to Say You're Sorry" in 1971.

The line has also been criticized and mocked for suggesting that apologies are unnecessary in a loving relationship.

: in that film's final scene, Barbra Streisand's character says "Love means never having to say you're sorry," and bats her eyelashes, and O'Neal's character responds in a flat deadpan voice, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard."

[3] The line has also been parodied countless times, usually substituting another word or phrase for "love" and/or "you're sorry", especially the latter.