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.
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...
When things were as fine as could possibly be
I thought 'twas the spring; but alas it was she.
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red;
All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.
I will now court her in the conqueror's style;
"Come, see, and overcome."
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.