“What I’m trying to say is—only I’m not a poet, I’m an ophiologist—I’ve always loved you. I mean I’ve never loved anyone but you. I know that sounds dull as a drugstore novel, and what I see inside I’ll never be able to cast into words, but that’s what I mean. I wish we were married and on our honeymoon now.”

Charles (Henry Fonda) to Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) in Preston Sturges’sThe Lady Eve.