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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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But then the need of being loved, the strongest need ... in poor Maggie's nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.

George Eliot The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Well he knows his course has hasted
Through delicious sin,
Borne tumultuously along.
Never have the stars above
Chronicled such utter love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I love the guitar, always have. I can relate to it a lot better than a saxophone.

Frank Zappa New York Daily News interview (1979)

You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

Jeff Foxworthy Totally Committed (1998)

If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe.

Bono Rolling Stone interview (2005)

Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed,
Nary a curse cursed he,
But moved in his House. With his dark little wife,
And his dark little children three.

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Each man kills the things he loves". I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

Pete Doherty

There is no God but Love.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

I'm actually all for gay marriage. Just the thought of having another man around the house...

Daniel Tosh True Stories I Made Up (2005)

there is no justice we don't make daily
like bread and love.

Marge Piercy The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme (1999)

[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We’re playing the field right now.

Harry Connick Jr.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman Q&A: Tracey Ullman (2004)

Theodosius, or the Force of Love (acted 1680), Act iii., Sc. 2.

Nathaniel Lee

Choose a wife who is of character, because that one is good who in the end is more respected. (p. 60)

Zoroaster

He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak

If they made a film of my life, I think they should get George Clooney to play me. He's a fantastic actor and my wife thinks he would be ideal.

José Mourinho

Come! for I need Thy love,
More than the flower the dew, or grass the rain;
Come like Thy Holy Dove,
And let me in Thy sight rejoice to live again.

Jones Very

[The king] would assure me, a long time later, that he had said "I love you" to only three women. "One of them is you," he told me.

Farah Pahlavi An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah (2004)

Love... I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But magic can sometimes be an illusion.

Rati Tsiteladze

...there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

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