Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Interpretation
Love can often be blind and influenced by circumstances that obscure clarity.
This quote by Maurice Chevalier suggests that people sometimes fall in love under circumstances where their judgment is clouded, comparing it to choosing an unsuitable suit in poor lighting. It highlights the notion that romantic feelings may develop despite lack of clarity about one's true feelings or the suitability of the partner, indicating that love often arises in unexpected and less than ideal conditions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the complexities of romantic relationships.
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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