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Wedding Quotes

Wikiquote has no wedding page of its own to draw on, so this one is a blend of the marriage, love and romance pages. Only one quote in the data is filed under weddings directly: Ambrose Bierce’s entry in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), a definition of the ceremony as a joke about who ends up as nothing. It is funny and it is not for a toast.

For a reading or a speech, the love and romance material is the better bet. Shakespeare and Byron are both here. Look at the source line under each quote before you print it on anything.

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Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in,
Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample.
The cause of Love shall win —

Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy (1862)

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer (1893)

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H. L. Mencken Prejudices, First Series (1919)

The pride of abnegation had vanished, and she was willing that those she loved should be happy through other instrumentality than her own.

Émile Zola La joie de vivre (1883)

Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.

Isaac Asimov In Joy Still Felt (1980)

Love's but a frailty of the mind,
When 'tis not with ambition joined.

William Congreve The Way of the World (1700)

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

Charles Kingsley Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Whatsoever
Is worthy of their love, is worth their anger.

John Denham The Sophy (1641)

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith The Good-Natur'd Man (1768)

Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.

John Gay The Beggar's Opera (1728)

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

H. G. Wells An Experiment in Autobiography (1934)

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

E. M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

'Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.'

Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden (1986)

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hermann und Dorothea (1797)

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.

Fernando Pessoa

That's not my love; that's just your life.

Fernando Pessoa

Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness.

George Eliot Romola (1863)

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