this heart's on fire

Four Weddings & a Funeral

• Gareth: I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.
• Charles: Uh-huh.
• Gareth: Totally. I mean they can't think of a single thing to say to each other. That's it: panic! Then suddenly it-it occurs to the chap that there is a way out of the deadlock.
• Charles: Which is?
• Gareth: He'll ask her to marry him.
• Charles: Brilliant! Brilliant!
• Gareth: Suddenly they've got something to talk about for the rest of their lives.
• Charles: Basically you're saying marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation.
• Gareth: The definitive icebreaker.