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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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I always wanted her to say, "I love you, I’ll stand by you, you are very important to me," but she never did. She loved me inside, but I didn’t feel it.

Stella Vine

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege The Man of Mode (1676)

There is no vacation from love, it doesn't exist. Love, you must live it fully, with its boredom and all, there is no possible vacation from that.

Marguerite Duras

"In riding to the hounds, in falconry,
In love or war," as anyone will tell you,
"For one brief joy a hundred woes."

François Villon Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461)

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer (1706)

I am Arnaut who love the wind,
And chase the hare with the ox,
And swim against the torrent.

Arnaut Daniel

My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.

Luís de Camões Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008)

I like to provoke a response, whether that's someone telling me they love what I do or throwing a bottle at me.

Thea Gilmore

But this beyond their wit know I:
Man loves a little, and for long shall die.

Vita Sackville-West Kings Daughter (1929)

All strangers love her, will always find her fair,
Because such elegance, such happiness,
Will not be found in any town but this:
Paris is beyond compare.

Eustache Deschamps

What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.

François Mauriac Préséances (1921)

Eschew blandness. Eschew causing others pain. We are all the target so wear bright colors and dance with those you love.

Anne Herbert

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Muriel Spark

I'd love to visit space, to see how our beautiful planet looks from there. I think every man has such a dream, but you'd need years of hard working for that.

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned.

Miranda July

I wasn't sure his views on marriage could get any gayer.

Rand Paul

I really, really love to have people honestly be moved and inspired.

Julie Taymor Academy of Achievement interview (2006)

Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.

Nelson Rodrigues

I love standing on the stage and singing. The feeling you have in your body when you sing.

Cher

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Larry McMurtry Leaving Cheyenne (1963)

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