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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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It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly

Anish Kapoor

Jesus tells me that in love it is he who delights me; in pain, however, it is I who delight him. (335, 1995)

Padre Pio

When we begin to close our eyes on veiled girls in the name of "modesty" ... we finally close our eyes to girls raped under the guise of "marriage".

Waleed Al-Husseini

Earth and sky touch everywhere and nowhere, like sex between two strangers. There is no definition and no union for sure. ("The Antelope Wife")

Louise Erdrich

All of the animals I have known enter into my writing, become it. They are inspiration, research, and also my love.

Linda Hogan Superstition Review (2013)

I was the first born of the family and was dearly loved by my grandparents and my mum. It was like a punishment but I knew that was the way out for me.

Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade

For me—and I think for most writers—you're a reader first and then it just happens. You so love it that you want to be part of it, and you start writing.

Alice Hoffman Interview with Goodreads (2017)

Today, the husband is the head of the family, the wife must obey the husband and it is the husband who has the choice of residence”

Rose Christiane Raponda

Education was also a cornerstone of my upbringing. My parents fostered a love for learning that continues to drive me to this day.

Chinwe Egwim

I love that I draw my strength from the strong women who fought against oppression and marched in 1956

Khabonina Qubeka

I love words, I really love the pleasure and consolation you get from words. Words can be nourishing or medicinal or at their worst, poisonous.

Lorna Goodison Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets (2000)

My wife is the only person I’m answerable to. If she had complained about my close friendship with Allwell, I would have stepped back from the friendship.

Rotimi Salami

Jesus did not promise to take away our cross. He told us to carry it on our shoulders, but with Jesus, the cross becomes all love.

Marthe Robin

I think it’s how we show love. My love language is showering people with gifts. I also reciprocate feelings when someone shows me love

Ayanda Gugulethu Thabethe

in a marriage loyalty and fidelity and trust cannot be compromised.

Ruby Dee

We loved the mountains. Togliatti was a keen walker, as was I.

Nilde Iotti

I am who I am because of the kind of love I was shown by my family

Cobhams Asuquo

[God] You love hateful people whose vices you know.

Claude La Colombière

It was very difficult. But through the support I had from them, I stayed motivated to continue doing something I love – playing football.

Oswin Appollis

...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.

Erica Jong Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

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