It Happened One Night Love Quotes

These words are sung, not spoken, by the driver who picks Ellie and Peter up when they're hitchhiking. Again, they're pretending to be husband and wife, and again they're not yet in a position to recognize the happiness and future honeymoon that it foretells. The Highway of Love, in fact, might have been another title for It Happened One Night.

Here Ellie bravely pops the question—not "Will you marry me?" but "What does love mean to you?" Her willingness to ask lets her find out the answer, and that's what prompts Peter's comment about the "sort of a girl who'll jump into the surf." Note that here, too, it's the woman who shows guts, not the man. In this sense, as when she makes the decision to leave King Westley hanging at the altar, Ellie can be seen to wear the pants in that relationship. (Never mind that she's only ever seen in a skirt—or pajamas.)