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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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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Paulo Coelho By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Christina Rossetti

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love.

Paul Bourget

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

Barry Long Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Sri Chinmoy The Wings of Joy (1997)

Nothing is more natural than to marry.

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)

I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell
Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.

Richard Brathwait The English Gentelman and Gentelwoman (1640)

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron The Giaour (1813)

Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band,
Let sage or cynic prattle as he will,
These hours, and only these, redeem Life's years of ill.

Lord Byron

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

George Eliot The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over.

Rudyard Kipling The Gypsy Trail (1892)

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

Paul Simon Surprise (2006)

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold.

Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Richard Crashaw

How happy the lover,
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain.

John Dryden

And once again we plighted our troth,
And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.

Heinrich Heine

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

William Shakespeare Henry V (1599)

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing,
So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Richard Harris Barham

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