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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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From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.

Hesiod Theogony (-700)

Love for the sinner is ominously close to love of the sin. But the love of Christ for the sinner in itself is the condemnation of sin.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Discipleship (1937)

Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.

John Buchan The Path of the King (1921)

We are most of us very lonely in the world. You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.

William Makepeace Thackeray Lovel the Widower (1860)

We cannot give the world anything it doesn't already have except God and God's love. But before we can give God to men, we must be one with him ourselves.

Catherine Doherty The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

One can love a real woman after having loved her imagined counterpart. Similarly, one can adapt oneself to a society which, previously, one held in contempt.

André Maurois The Art of Writing (1957)

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Hannah Arendt

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

Brandon Boyd

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

"Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

Love governs his empire without a sword.

Petrarch Il Canzoniere (1351)

The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact.

Petrarch Il Canzoniere (1351)

For he makes a good end who dies loving well.

Petrarch Il Canzoniere (1351)

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Ada Leverson Love's Shadow (1908)

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Coretta Scott King

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.

J. M. Coetzee Slow Man (2005)

A venial sin of your own is a greater obstacle to your experiencing the love of Jesus Christ than the sin of anyone else, however great it may be.

Walter Hilton The Ladder of Perfection (1494)

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

Yann Martel Life of Pi (2001)

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