How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Gigi.
Quote #1
GIGI: A necklace is love/a ring is love/a rock from some obnoxious little king is love./A sapphire with a star is love/an ugly black cigar is love/everything you are is love./You would think it would embarrass all the people here is Paris/To be thinking every minute of love./[…] I don't understand the Parisians/thinking love's so miraculous and grand!
This song establishes Gigi as a child who doesn't know the ways of the world. It's a total mystery to her why people seem to be obsessed with love. Love's been presented to Gigi of a series of ridiculous behaviors and objects that don't seem to make much sense to her. It sets up her character arc and makes her emergence as a young woman in love all that more dramatic. It also lets us see that even as a naïve girl, she has some wisdom about the foolishness of all the pretense in "love."
Quote #2
GIGI: Do you make love all the time?
GASTON: I beg your pardon?
GIGI: Do you make love all the time, Gaston?
GASTON: The only people who make love all the time are liars.
This can totally be read more than one way. On one hand, people aren't making love all the time—they're just pretending they are. On the other hand, they're lying in order to make love all the time, saying anything they need to say in order to "close the deal." Which do you think makes more sense, given the context?
Quote #3
HONORÉ: You're legitimate. He's forbidden fruit.
As Liane canoodles with her skating instructor, Gaston wonders what the instructor's got that he doesn't have. Who knows if Honoré is right; according to him, everyone cheats on everyone and that's just the way it is. Forbidden love is the most exciting of all.