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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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A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch

Together linkt with adamantine chains.

Edmund Spenser

Therefore God's universal law
Gave to the man despotic power
Over his female in due awe,
Not from that right to part an hour,
Smile she or lour.

John Milton Samson Agonistes (1671)

Cold disdain is the meat of marriage.

Arthur Rimbaud A Season in Hell (1873)

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Let husbands know,
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have.

William Shakespeare Othello (1603)

You are of the society of the wits and railers;… the surest sign is, you are an enemy to marriage, the common butt of every railer.

David Garrick

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

John Lyly

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

George Bernard Shaw

Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.

Robert Burns The Henpecked Husband (1788)

He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch,
Before the door had given her to his eyes.

John Keats

King whom one cannot reach in the distant sky! Suen whom one cannot reach in the distant sky! King who loves justice, who hates evil! Suen who loves justice, who hates evil! Justice brings joy justly to your heart.

Lugalbanda

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. ... Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pasture or grey grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.

Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,—
His eyes are in his mind.What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth.
We hope to breed a race of men whose power
Dwells in hearts as open as all Space
Itself, who ask for nothing but the light
That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars
Above will be below when man has Love.

Philip José Farmer Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother;
you were very dear to me.
Your love for me was wonderful,
more wonderful than that of women.

David

The warrior for the True, the Right,
Fights in Love's name;
The love that lures thee from that fight
Lures thee to shame:
That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves
The spirit free,—
That love, or none, is fit for one
Man-shaped like thee.

Aubrey Thomas de Vere

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.

Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse Peter Camenzind (1904)

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