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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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What I want from all my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

Meher Baba What Baba Means by Real Work (1954)

Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.

Kristin Kreuk

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Without hatred where's the light?
Without darkness where's the love?

Dave Matthews The Lillywhite Sessions (2001)

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Anton Chekhov

How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.

Anton Chekhov Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

I love for the sake of what I have loved, and what I have loved I would not go back to loving.

Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Jimmy Carr

Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky.

Robert Bridges

We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.

Meg White

One candle is enough. Its gentle light
will be more suitable, will be more gracious
when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

Constantine P. Cavafy Collected Poems (1992)

The sand as white
as old bones, the pine trees
strangely red where the sun comes down.
I cannot say if it is our love,
or the day, that is ending.

Anna Akhmatova Departures (1964)

I was thrilled. I loved the idea of opening everything up, of making old and secret documents available to anybody who wished to see them.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.

Simone de Beauvoir All Men are Mortal (1946)

The command to a Christian couple is: "Grow in grace and love together."

G. E. M. Anscombe Contraception and Chastity (1975)

I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it.

Ashlee Simpson

Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love:
Go and repose.
What I need is a sword, rivers of gold,
and acrid prose.

José Rizal

And never will I wed.
I'll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom of my life,
and ever hold my breath,
till I may be the diver's wife.

Joanna Newsom Divers (2015)

Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay!
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

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