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1->''You know the trouble with you lot? You're all in love with the wrong people.''
2-->--'''Mrs. Patmore''', ''Series/DowntonAbbey''
3
4->''Withered Hope says she has a soul mate,\
5Living in a city in another state.\
6But the soul mate thinks about a picture in a book of a beautiful crook.\
7And the picture of the crook in the book is in love with the brand new motorbike.\
8But the motorbike doesn't like crooks,\
9it's obsessed with the Very Sad Sack''
10-->-- '''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "Withered Hope"
11
12->''Hang on, hang on. I'm gonna get some thumbtacks and colored strings so we can diagram this.''
13-->-- '''Corrine Buenavida''', "[[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1089 Perhaps a Pie Chart]]", ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''
14
15->''I'd say it's a LoveTriangle, but it's more like a love octagon!''
16-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]]''' on ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''
17
18->The [[CanonSue heroine]] is usually an heiress, [[BlueBlood probably a peeress in her own right]], with perhaps [[AristocratsAreEvil a vicious baronet]], an amiable duke, and an irresistible younger son of a marquis as lovers in the foreground, a clergyman and a poet sighing for her in the middle distance, and a crowd of undefined adorers dimly indicated beyond.
19-->--'''Creator/GeorgeEliot''', ''Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists''
20
21->'''Silvia''': ''(talking to Pepa)'' It's just that between your magnum and your "hot blood", you'd be a good match for Lucas.
22->'''Lola''': Don't even start with that. Our family is already complicated enough.
23-->--''Los Hombres De Paco''
24
25->''By this point, the never-ending battle for Kelly has me eager for the [[SuperCouple classic couplings]] to finally get together, and the thought of another twenty minutes of macho one-upmanship, with the Screech/Lisa chase also in play, sees my fingers crossed for one of those {{Very Special Episode}}s that takes a turn with a fast-spreading fire in a packed hallway with poorly-marked emergency exits.''
26-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''So Excited, So Scared: The Series/SavedByTheBell Retrospective''
27
28->''There was also something about a love triangle between [Ebony] and Literature/HarryPotter and Draco Malfoy, and for some reason, Hagrid. Which actually makes it more like a love rhombus than a triangle.''
29-->--'''WebVideo/BennettTheSage''', in Part II of his ''Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre'' dramatic reading of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''
30
31->''Duke '''wants''' Olivia who '''likes''' Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is '''dating''' Monique so she '''hates''' Olivia who's with Duke to make Sebastian '''jealous''' who is really Viola who's '''crushing''' on Duke who thinks she's a guy...''
32-->--Tagline for ''Film/ShesTheMan'' (also serves as a pretty accurate description of [[Theatre/TwelfthNight the play]] [[TheBardOnBoard the movie was based on]]).
33
34->''There are enough love triangles in ''The Essex Serpent'' to confound Euclid himself.''
35-->-- '''Jennifer Senior''', review of ''Literature/TheEssexSerpent''
36
37->''You love her\
38But she loves him\
39And he loves somebody else\
40You just can't win''
41-->--'''Music/TheJGeilsBand''', "Love Stinks"
42
43->''João loved Teresa, who loved Raimundo,\
44[[LongList Who loved Maria, who loved Joaquim, who loved Lili]],\
45Who loved no one.\
46\
47João moved to the United States, Teresa to the nunnery,\
48Raimundo died by disaster, Maria became a spinster,\
49Joaquim [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] and Lili married J. Pinto Fernandes,\
50[[ThirdOptionLoveInterest Who hadn't been in the story]].''
51-->-- ''Quadrille'', by Creator/CarlosDrummondDeAndrade
52
53->''Come on, Mom, it’s not that complicated. I’m dating Dean and Chelsea, and Dean is also dating Quentin, and Quentin is also dating Raj, and Raj and Chelsea sort of have a thing but it’s not official so we don’t really talk about it.''
54-->--'''[[Literature/OctoberDaye Gillian Daye]]''', ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21217628 wreath of lovers]]''
55
56->If there are more species involved, i.e. Werewolves or Fay or Demons or Shapeshifters, your triangle will soon start to resemble a more complex mathematical shape, such as an icosahedron, and you will find yourself unable to move without tripping over some unclad and/or undead person. If this should happen to you, the Management advises you to leave town and start a new Tour under a different name.
57-->--''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/295726 The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities]]'', on {{Love Triangle}}s

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