But that doesn't mean that I want to marry her--" "For shame!" "Nonsense! Why do you talk about inconstancy?
It's a ridiculous word.
What is constancy in love?
Either an accident or a fortunate state of mind.

To promise constancy in love is promising to continue in a state of mind over which your will has no control.

It's never an honest promise; it can be only an honest hope.

Love comes and goes and no man can stay it, and no man is its prophet.

Coming unasked, sometimes undesired, often unwelcome, it goes unbidden, without reason, without logic, as inexorably as it came, governed by laws that no man has ever yet understood--" "Louis!" exclaimed his sister, bewildered; "what in the world are you lecturing about?
Why, to hear you expound the anatomy of love--" He began to laugh, caught her hands, and kissed her: "Little goose, that was all impromptu and horribly trite and commonplace.