95 Short and Sweet Wedding Quotes

Whether you’re writing your own vows or looking for a phrase to calligraph on signs for your venue, there are plenty of famous love quotes that are perfect for your big day. Many of the best romantic quotes by world-renowned poets, authors, philosophers, and even beloved movie characters, prove that the simplest, most earnest words are often the most honest and poignant. Here is a comprehensive list of short and sweet love and marriage quotes to inspire your own wedding day.

Wedding Quotes From Poets

• “I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” -Pablo Neruda
• “It is a treasure that is outshined by what it means … eternal romance.” -Theresa Ann Moore
• “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: Yours is the darkness of my soul’s return—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” -EE Cummings
• “Love is never truly blind, but rather brings an added light.” -Phoebe Cary
• “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” -Torquato Tasso
• “Unto us all our days are love’s anniversaries, each one in turn hath ripen’d something of our happiness.” -Robert Bridges
• “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” -Victor Hugo
• “More than kisses, letters mingle souls.” -John Donne
• “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” -Henry David Thoreau
• “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor it comes with all my heart.” -Alice Walker
• “Two hearts in love need no words.” -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Wedding Quotes From Movies

• “Some people are worth melting for.” -Olaf, Frozen
• “You look good wearing my future.” -Keith Nelson, Some Kind of Wonderful
• “Laughter is the clock on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.” -Diane Johnson, Le Divorce
• “I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” -EM Forster, A Room With a View
• “No matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.” -Leo, The Vow
• “She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry.” -Kirby, St. Elmo’s Fire
• “Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.” -Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
• “Life is not the number of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.” -Hitch, Hitch
• “When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.” -Dory, Finding Nemo
• “Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.” -Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart
• “I came here tonight because when you realize that you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” -Harry Burns, When Harry Met Sally
• “I love how she makes me feel, like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.” -Tom, (500) Days of Summer
• “The course of true love…gathers no moss.” -Margaret Lord, The Philadelphia Story
• “You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person, and your life is changed. Forever.” -Jamie, Love and Other Drugs
• “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” -Nick, The Wedding Date
• “Most of all, I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feel the rest of my life the way I feel when I’m with you.” -Baby, Dirty Dancing

Wedding Quotes From Actors

• “The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.” -Audrey Hepburn
• “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” -Will Ferrell
• “Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on X-Rays but you know it’s there.” -George Burns
• “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.” -Sylvester Stallone
• “Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.” -Aaron Paul
• “I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.” -Sean Penn
• “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” -Katharine Hepburn

Wedding Quotes From Songs

• “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” -The Beatles, “The End”
• “If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.” -Led Zeppelin, “Thank You”
• “Sweet wonderful you / You make me happy with the things you do. Oh can it be so / This feeling follows me where I go.” -Fleetwood Mac, “You Make Loving Fun”
• “Deep in my soul I know that I’m your destiny.” -Raven-Symoné, “True To Your Heart”
• “At last… my love has come along. My lonely days are over. And life is like a song.” -Etta James, “At Last”
• “You must have known that I was lonely because you came to my rescue, and I know that this must be heaven. How could so much love be inside of you?” -Stevie Wonder, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”

Wedding Quotes From Philosophers

• “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” -Lap Tzu
• “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato
• “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” -Aristotle
• “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination.” -Voltaire
• “The greatest pleasure in life is love.” -Euripides
• “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.” -Socrates
• “The love we give away is the only love we keep.” -Elbert Hubbard
• “Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back.” -Plato

Wedding Quotes From Authors

• “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” -Anatole France
• “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating new things.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” -François de la Rochefoucauld
• “Where words fail, music speaks.” -Hans Christian Andersen
• “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss
• “True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, in the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” -Ellen G. White
• “Two hearts can enlighten the whole world.” -Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
• “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” -William Faulkner
• “This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” Aberjhani
• “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.” Henry Miller
• “Great love affairs start with Champagne.” -Honoré de Balzac

Wedding Quotes From Plays and Musicals

• “I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?” -Stage Manager, Our Town
• “The price of love is loss, but still we pay. We love anyway.” –Dan and Diana, Next to Normal
• “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” -Rosalind, As You Like It
• “Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and I’ll take you there.” -Maria, West Side Story
• “I feel his arms around me. And when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me.” –Eponine, Les Miserables
• “I know no way to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.'” -King Henry, Henry V
• “Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service.” -Ferdinand, The Tempest
• “I love you with so much of my heart that nothing is left to protest.” -Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing

Wedding Quotes From Books

• “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” -Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “I love you right up to the moon and back.” -Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You
• “I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• “Love is keeping promises anyway.” -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
• “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?” -LM Montgomery, Anne of Green Gable
• “In real life, shouldn’t a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can’t wait to talk about gardening with for the next forty years.” -Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
• “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” -Nicholas Sparks, The Notebooks
• “When I fall in love, it will be forever.” -Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
• “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.” -Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• “Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.” -André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name
• “Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• “Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” -Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

Wedding Quotes From TV Shows

• “When all my dreams come true, the one I want next to me, it’s you.” -Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
• “Three words. Eight letters. Say it, and I’m yours.” -Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
• “There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You’d think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists, well, without dreamers, they might never get off the ground.” -Cameron Tucker, ModernFamily
• “I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you me.” -Meredith Gray, Grey’s Anatomy
• “I’m once afraid your heart is involved, it all comes out in moron.” -Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
• “But love doesn’t make sense. You can’t logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.” -Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
• “I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and you cherish it. Because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.” -George Feeny, Boy Meets World

Wedding Quotes From Musicians

• “The ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.” -Johnny Cash
• “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” -Madonna
• “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken.” -Taylor Swift
• “When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.” -Lana Del Ray
• “Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.” -Ray Charles
• “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it . You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.” -John Legend
• “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” -Franz Schubert