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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

George Eliot The Mill on the Floss (1860)

We step not over the threshold of childhood till led by Love

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

I know not which is the most fatal gift,
Genius or Love, for both alike are ruled
By stars of bright aspect and evil influence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Oh, nothing has the memory of love!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

[...] the love of power excludes all others.

Indro Montanelli

Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I,"
When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

J. D. Salinger Interview in The Baton Rouge Advocate (1980)

When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope (1983)

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Orson Scott Card Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.

Orson Scott Card Earthfall (1995)

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

James Dobson

If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.

P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas (1936)

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

Henry Rollins Solipsist (1998)

Blue Moon,
Now I'm no longer alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Lorenz Hart Blue Moon (1934)

[I]n words lie the seeds of all dissension, and love at its most profound is silent.

Hilaire Belloc A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)

Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will

Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (2001)

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.

Pete Seeger Turn! Turn! Turn! (1954)

Embryonic artworks grow
In the womb heart of the artists,
Until the fever of making seizes their limbs,
And they deliver their art through labors of love.

Alex Grey Art Psalms (2008)

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