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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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It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

Henryk Sienkiewicz Without Dogma (1891)

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.

Auguste Rodin to Rodin in H. Read (1964)

I identify with people like Diana who just want to be loved by everybody. If somebody doesn’t like me I find that very upsetting.

Stella Vine

Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Paul of Tarsus

This is a song about the reason we all came down here today, and that's because we (expletive) love music. This is a crowd-surfing song.

Bert McCracken

I propose to tell you a very brief tale about a love which...ran a smooth course to its happy conclusion.

Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron (1350)

People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Barbara Stanwyck

Swem nie von liebe leit geschach,
dem geschach ouch liep von liebe nie. He that never had sorrow of love never had joy of it either!

Gottfried von Strassburg

It's unthinkable not to love — you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Lawrence Durrell

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love —
But you will not assuage him. He alone
Of all the gods will take no gifts from men.

Sara Teasdale Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Indifference and contempt will always be able to take on an aura of intellectual superiority over sympathy and love for others.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Aphorisms (1880)

All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

Sydney J. Harris Strictly Personal (1953)

Try thinking of love, or something.
Amor vincit insomnia.

Christopher Fry A Sleep of Prisoners (1951)

Deep in every heart it lies
With its untranscended skies;
For what heaven should bend above
Hearts that own the heaven of love?

Alfred Noyes The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,
When you, you wonder why, love none.
We love, Fool, for the good we do,
Not that which unto us is done!

Coventry Patmore The Angel in the House (1854)

And even if the cold wind blows,
The love that rains in my heart
Keeps me the warmer the colder it is.

Arnaut Daniel

If you love what you do, you can balance and you can juggle (work and family). You have to set your priorities straight. You can't just work, work, work.

Heidi Klum

Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.

Peter Greenaway

No star from above
nor flower in the field
seems to me as fair
as the one I love.

Luís de Camões

I don't think I did anything great. Any Chinese or Olympics-loving torchbearer would protect the torch under such circumstances.

Jin Jing

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