Quotes about love: Inspiration for wedding speeches, programmes and cards

Quotes and sayings about love – Inspiration for your wedding

Quotes and proverbs about love. Throughout the ages, people have sought to capture love in words – in whispers, promises and phrases that linger long after they have been spoken. In this collection, we have gathered some of history’s most beautiful and thought-provoking love quotes, perfect to carry with you on your wedding day, whether in the ceremony programme, in a speech or as a recurring theme throughout your day.

• All you need is love. Love is all you need.
  John Lennon
• Amor vincit omnia – Love conquers all.
  Virgil, 19 BC
• To see a young couple in love is no wonder; but to see an old couple in love is the best thing one can see.
  William Makepeace Thackeray
• Of all human passions, love is the strongest, for it assails the head, the heart and the senses all at once.
  Unknown
• The people who have got the most out of life are not those who have lived a century, but those who have lived every minute.
  Colette
• The greatest happiness in life is the certainty of being loved for one’s own sake, or rather: of being loved in spite of oneself.
  Victor Hugo
• True love is like a circle, and a circle has no end.
  Russian proverb
• He who cannot hate cannot love either.
  Voltaire
• He knows little of love who always speaks of it.
  Italian proverb
• There is no cure for love, other than to love more.
  Thoreau
• There is no better beauty treatment than happiness.
  Blessington
• It is said that love knows no bounds. But it is precisely the bounds that are interesting.
  Jean-Luc Godard
• True love is like ghosts: everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
  François de La Rochefoucauld
• It is impossible to be in love and wise at the same time.
  Francis Bacon
• You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
  Ami Carmichael
• In truth, we exist through love. It is love that determines what we are.
  William Sloane Coffin
• A man always wants to be a woman’s first love – a woman always wants to be a man’s last adventure.
  Oscar Wilde
• A man is, as a rule, a woman’s sure prey long before he himself has the slightest inkling of it.
  Walter Winchell
• A happy marriage requires falling in love many times, and each time with the same person.
  Mignon McLaughlin
• One word frees us from all life’s burdens and pain: that word is love.
  Sophocles
• Poverty and love are hard to conceal.
  François de La Rochefoucauld
• Lovers sing for the same reason that children whistle in the dark.
  August Strindberg
• Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more!
  Catullus
  
• In love, one begins by deceiving oneself and ends by deceiving others.
  Oscar Wilde
  
  Here you will find several classic quotes about love that are perfect for a wedding programme.
• I can promise you nothing, assure you of nothing, only this: that right now, we are always together.
  Lars Björklund
• No offence to men. After all, they’re the best we’ve got, in that respect.
  Maj Fant
• I learnt long ago that the only people who matter in any marriage are the two who are in it.
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
• The kiss is what remains of the language of paradise.
  Joseph Conrad
• Love creates a ‘we’ without destroying an ‘I’.
  Leo Buscaglia
• Love should be a tree with deep roots, yet with shoots that reach up to the sky.
  Bertrand Russell
• Love is born of the joy of looking at one another, is nourished by the need to be together, and is perfected by the impossibility of being apart.
  José Martí
• Love is like a dove; if you hold it too tightly, it suffocates; if you hold it too loosely, it flies away.
  Danish proverb
• The flowers of love must be watered with wine.
  C.M. Bellman, Op. 13
• Love conquers all.
  Virgil, 19 BC
• Love is, above all, giving oneself as a gift.
  Jean Anouilh
• Love and a cold cannot be hidden.
  Russian proverb
• Love can move mountains.
  Nordic proverb
• Love is a journey without a compass in a land without roads. An adventure.
  Anne Swärd
• Happiness slips in through a door you didn’t realise you’d left ajar.
  John Barrymore
• One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.
  Amy Carmichael
• But love me for love’s sake, so that you may love forever, through all of love’s eternity.
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• But to see her was to love her, to love only her, and to love her forever.
  Robert Burns
• Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women want to be a man’s last adventure.
  Oscar Wilde
• People are like jigsaw pieces; there are always two that fit together.
  Unknown origin
• If you wish to be loved, love yourself.
  Hekaton
• Wrinkles are dimples in the eyes of a lover.
  Chinese proverb
• Such harmony should reign between you that when one weeps, the other should taste the salt.
  Unknown origin
• Seek love and you’ll never find it; flee from love and it will pursue you.
  English proverb
• Until you are a hundred, until I am ninety-nine, together, until our hair turns white.
  Japanese song
• Two souls with but one thought – two hearts beating as one.
  E.F.J. von Munch-Bellinghausen
• We cannot do great things – only small things with great love.
  Mother Teresa
• Do you wish to understand men? Study women.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Wine and women drive a man mad.
  Unknown origin
• Some love is like winter apples: it ripens late and lasts a long time.
  Unknown origin

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