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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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Give a man a girl he can love,
As I, O my love, love thee;
And his heart is great with the pulse of Fate,
At home, on land, on sea.

James Thomson Sunday Up the River (1865)

...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love--the serge outlasts the silk.

Clifford Odets

So many lovers, yet there is no love.

Avner Strauss Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978)

In rose with petals soft as air
I bind for you the tides and fire —
the death that lives within the flower,
oh, gladly love, for you I bear.

Kathleen Raine

What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.

Leslie Bricusse

I wanna love you
I wanna be a better man
I don't wanna hurt you
I just wanna see what's in your hand.

Liam Gallagher

I don't want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. I'm into love... I want to be someone who is respected by everybody.

Justin Bieber

And I love you like all-fire.

Suzanne Collins Sunrise on the Reaping (2025)

You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.

Tim Powers Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (2017)

No matter what you've lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Stan Rogers The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength.

Margery Allingham The Oaken Heart (1941)

Only one thing is expect of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself and love with all your being and all your light without stopping.

Michael Elmore-Meegan All Will be Well (2004)

Oh, oh, very badly. I would love to start again but maybe I’m too old

Queen Camilla

Round the blue sea I love the best
The argent foam played, slender, fleet;
I saw—past Wordsworth and the rest—
Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.

Alice Meynell Poems (1923)

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.

Nicki Minaj

This is my child . I planted it . I saw it grow . I loved it . Don't cut it down .

R. K. Narayan Malgudi Days (1943)

Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the Divine Embrace

John Ruysbroeck Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912)

I find in myself by the grace of God a satisfaction without nourishment, love without fear

Catherine of Genoa

(…) one should not have hatred towards anyone; one should try not to let down other people; one should try to help others; one should try to love all.

Haidakhan Babaji

My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons. I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her forever.

Thomas Cohen

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