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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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If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.

Thomas Moore Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.

Suman Pokhrel

If we have the heart of a mother or, more precisely, if we set out to have the heart of the Mother par excellence: Mary, we will always be ready to love.

Chiara Lubich

Stars shine but start to fade in the light
Love is blind, could be wrong or it could be right
In a bind telling myself it's for you

Norah Jones

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
The deer to the wholesome wold;
And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
As it was in the days of old.

Rudyard Kipling The Gypsy Trail (1892)

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard (1717)

Love has no thought of self!
Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
The loathsome prostitution of a hand
Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
To bless the thing it loves!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I'll bid the hyacinth to blow,
I'll teach my grotto green to be;
And sing my true love, all below
The holly bower and myrtle tree.

Thomas Campbell

I love her doubling and anguish;
I love the love she withholds,
I love my love that loveth her,
And anew her being moulds.

Richard Watson Gilder

Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near.

James Russell Lowell

"I'm sorry that I spell'd the word;
I hate to go above you,
Because"—the brown eyes lower fell,—
"Because, you see, I love you!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.

Ovid

Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills, rise, mighty Power, and fall upon the sons of our enemies with all the force you used upon Medea when you filled her with insensate fury.

Apollonius of Rhodes

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Giannina Braschi Empire of Dreams (1988)

Nothing is more hateful than love.

John Lyly

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine.

William Shakespeare

Now go with me and with this holy man
Into the chantry by: there, before him,
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith.

William Shakespeare

You are of the society of the wits and railleurs … the surest sign is, since you are an enemy to marriage,—for that, I hear, you hate as much as business or bad wine.

William Wycherley The Country Wife (1775)

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see
My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Homer

Awake,
My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found,
Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight!

John Milton

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