“Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”

“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”

“A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.”

“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.”

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.”

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”