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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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I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.

Derek Walcott The Schooner Flight (1980)

'T is loving and serving
The Highest and Best!
'T is onwards! unswerving,
And that is true rest.

John Sullivan Dwight

I married. I became a wife. I acquired a husband. I had a ceremonial wedding in style. Whichever way you say it -- it was bound to end badly.

Peter Greenaway

Somebody embroidered the doily.
Somebody waters the plant,
or oils it, maybe. Somebody
arranges the rows of cans […]
Somebody loves us all.

Elizabeth Bishop Questions of Travel (1965)

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Sachin Tendulkar

The desire of love, Joy:
The desire of life, Peace:
The desire of the soul, Heaven:
The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever.

William Sharp

Alas, where have they gone to, year on weary year?
Was it all a dream then, my life's, my love's career?

Walther von der Vogelweide

"Love makes us liars. The Seelie Queen told me that. So don't judge me for lying about how I feel. You do it too."

Cassandra Clare City of Glass (2009)

The most horrible whores are famous. I did what I did for love. The others did it for money.

Hedy Lamarr Would You Believe I Was Once A Famous Star? It's the Truth! (1970)

I will love you no matter how many mistakes I make when trying to reduce fractions, and no matter how difficult it is to memorize the periodic table.

Daniel Handler The Beatrice Letters (2006)

Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

We all make mistakes - we fall in love with tenors and sopranoes even though tenors are as dumb as quarrelsome women, because high tones damage their brains.

Waldemar Łysiak Kielich (2002)

Giving in is no defeat.
Passing on is no retreat.
Selves are made to rise above.
You shall live in what you love.

Piet Hein

Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.

Bill Hybels Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

(Gies was asked if Anne Frank would have been in love with Peter (Van Pels) forever.)

Miep Gies

Jesus loves me—this I know,
For the Bible tells me so

Anna Bartlett Warner

In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.

Kenzaburō Ōe Paris Review interview (2007)

Some will love you. Some will hate you. Most won't care about you either way. This world is all Good vs. Evil. And I fight evil.

Lupe Fiasco

New Age-ism : I could Love it … If corn circles came from enlightened aliens, Rather than Wiltshire pranksters on cider…

Peter J. Carroll

How Henry would have loved it.

Ellen Terry

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