“So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly, ugly daughter.”
Trial by Jury (1875)
Source: 1875, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 353 (2005)
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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911Related quotes
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”
“Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time”
Page 179
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”
he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death. Compare: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te" (translation: "I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee"), Martial, Epigram i. 33; "Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause, Je sais seulement une chose; C'est que je ne vous aime pas", Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, Comte de Rabutin (1618–1693).
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“I fell in love with you. I didn't do it on purpose”
Variant: I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.
Source: The Hunter
