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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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"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

"Without love, we are birds with broken wings."

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.

Thomas Hood The Song of the Shirt (1843)

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

His pictures [of Nolde, which Jawlensky met in 1912] remind me of my own in the strength of their expression. I have a passionate love for Nolde and his art.

Alexej von Jawlensky

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Susie Bright

Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.

Samuel Rutherford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I would be spooning my 6'8" boyfriend. I'm the big spoon, obviously. He'll love that I said that.

Jameela Jamil

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband (1895)

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Joan of Arc Trial records (1431)

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

George Carlin

When Hélène came back, ... she said to herself that they had never loved one another less than that day.

Émile Zola Une page d'amour (1878)

"I'll never love any but you," the morning song of the lark;
"I'll never love any but you," the nightingale's hymn in the dark.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...
one can no more be without the other
than the reasoning mind without its reason.

Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova (1293)

Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book (1868)

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth

I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself;— all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton Lacon (1820)

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

Henry Ward Beecher Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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