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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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Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

Toni Morrison Paradise (1997)

Love and grief our hearts dividing,
With our tears His feet we bathe;
Constant still, in faith abiding,
Life deriving from His death.

James Allen Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,
I watch the star whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, love.

Thomas Moore Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

I do not love him, but he is mine.

J. M. Coetzee Foe (1986)

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Ayrton Senna

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place;
I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

The Amish are exempt from military service due to their belief in “non-resistance.” Why can’t humankind do the same in the name of peace, love, and freedom?

Newton Lee

The boat that took my love away
He sent again to me
To tell me that he would not sleep
Alone beneath the sea.

Stevie Smith Selected Poems (1962)

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy,
And the janitor's boy loves me;
He's going to hunt for a desert isle
In our geography.

Nathalia Crane The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn!

Voltairine de Cleyre Sex Slavery (1890)

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. (p666)

Marge Piercy Gone to Soldiers (1987)

I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I really love being Irish.

Martin Sheen Inside the Actors Studio (1994)

If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give them a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that their marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.

Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006)

The materials, the colors, were like friendship and love, both wanting to fulfill themselves in the most beautiful form.

Emil Nolde

And the love we hold, and the love we spurn,
Will never grow cold, only taciturn

Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

In this life, who did you love,
beneath the drifting ashes,
beneath the sheeting banks of air
that barrenly bore our rations?

Joanna Newsom Have One On Me (2010)

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me. I don't apologize. I stand by it. If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

Stephen A. Smith

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

Cesare Pavese This Business of Living (1935)

Uccello cello cello
I love myself.

Peter Levi

But love is such a mystery,
I cannot find it out;
For when I think I'm best resolv'd,
I then am most in doubt.

John Suckling Last Remains (1659)

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