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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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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1952)

They say that bears
Have love affairs
And even camels,
We're merely mammals
Let's misbehave.

Cole Porter Paris (1928)

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"I remain committed, until the end, to the struggle for liberation and to the beauty and love it creates."

Abdullah Öcalan

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"Capitalist modernity is a system based on the denial of love."

Abdullah Öcalan

Offered with love to all the people of the world who love the Qur’an

Robert Spencer The Critical Quran (2021)

Love is no true-made looking-glass
Which perfect yields the shape we bring;
It ugly shows us all that was,
And flatters every future thing.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Caelica (1633)

One may be pardoned, yes I know
one may, for love for love, undying (Ephesians 6:24)

Marianne Moore

Impossible to love
Is all that I know how to be
But in my heart
I keep repeating
You didn't mean to hate me I still love my enemy.

Juliana Hatfield In Exile Deo (2004)

With the man I love who loves me not
I walked in the street-lamps' flare —
But oh, the girls who can ask for love
In the lights of Union Square.

Sara Teasdale Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

The world is large when weary leagues two loving hearts divide
But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Many a green-gown has been given;
Many a kiss, both odd and even:
Many a glance too has been sent
From out the eye, love's firmament.

Robert Herrick Hesperides (1648)

The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut.

Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides (1993)

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt’ring walls are thin,
May they be strong to keep hate out
And hold love in.

Louis Untermeyer

I thought Love’s plagues, like dragons, sat
Only to fright us at the gate.

Thomas Carew Poems (1640)

Ah! sovereign Love, forgive this weaker rhyme!
The men of old who sang were great at heart,
Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose.

Edmund Gosse New Poems (1879)

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

She smiled, and the shadows departed;
She shone, and the snows were rain;
And he who was frozen-hearted
Bloomed up into love again.

John Addington Symonds

Come listen, O Love, to the voice of the dove,
Come, hearken and hear him say,
THERE ARE MANY TO-MORROWS, MY LOVE, MY LOVE, —
THERE IS ONLY ONE TO-DAY.

Joaquin Miller In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

One cannot love God without fearing him, any more than one can love one's neighbor without respecting him; not to fear God is to prevent Him showing mercy.

Frithjof Schuon

The beautiful is not that which we love and because we love it, but that which by its objective value obliges us to love it.

Frithjof Schuon

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