quotations about brides
Run away my phantom bride
and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers
float away specter
and take the rest of my desire
A.P. SWEET
The Abattoir of Silence
He took the bride about the neck
And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
That at the parting all the church did echo.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Taming of the Shrew
The second you're engaged you will find yourself to be a part of a target market. Suddenly, all the businesses, magazines, and articles aimed at brides are also aimed at you! How strange. You're suddenly in with an elite group. Kind of like a support group, a really chic one, Repurposed Mason Jars Anonymous, and the twelve steps are all box steps so you seem more coordinated during your first dance.
JAMIE LEE
Weddiculous: An Unfiltered Guide to Being a Bride
Up, up, fair bride! and call
Thy stars from out their several boxes; take
Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make
Thyself a constellation of them all.
JOHN DONNE
"An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song, on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine, Being Married on St. VAlentine's Day"
The wedding night has lost some of its luster over the past few decades. It is not the "Big Night" event it used to be, as you have probably been sleeping with the blushing bride for months, maybe years, by this time. There is not much chance her mother is going to give your bride an instructional chat about what to expect in the course of performing her wifely duties. She could probably teach Mom a thing or two.
J.D. SMITH
Life Sentence: The Guy's Survival Guide to Getting Engaged and Married
Wedding planning is a massive undertaking, so I always recommend that my brides take a permanent leave of absence from their jobs, quit extracurricular activities (especially any volunteer obligations!), and sever ties with any unnecessary friends and family. Your wedding is your life now. Enjoy it!
LAURA WILCOX
I AM BRIDE: How to Take the WE Out of Wedding (and Other Useful Advice)
A bride should look chaste--not caught.
ROBERTA PEARCE
For Those Who Wait
As when a piece of wanton lawn,
A thin aerial veil is drawn
O'er beauty's face, seeming to hide,
More sweetly shows the blushing bride:
A soul whose intellectual beams
No mists do mask, no lazy streams.
RICHARD CRASHAW
"The Delights"
Kick the bride down the aisle
And make no mistake
It's the best you can do for everyone's sake
Kick the bride down the aisle
And treasure the day
I know so much more than I'm willing to say
She just wants a slave
To break his back in pursuit of a living wage
So that she can laze and graze
For the rest of her days
Write down every word I say
Kick the bride down the aisle
MORISSEY
"Kick the Bride Down the Aisle"
Being a bride was nothing, being a wife was everything.
KATE ATKINSON
Life After Life
It's also important to note that brides come in all shapes and sizes. Brides don't necessarily have to be female. As long as you are courageous enough to devote your whole life to your wedding, and are able to take full advantage of those around you to get what you want when you want it, then you, my friend, are a bride, male or female.
LAURA WILCOX
I AM BRIDE: How to Take the WE Out of Wedding (and Other Useful Advice)
The modern bride dresses to kill, and she usually cooks the same way.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Many a bride who is given away turns out to be mighty expensive.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Remember, the most adorable bride of today will be someone's mother-in-law in the future.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Happy is the bride the sun shines on.
C.S. FORESTER
Hornblower and the Hotspur
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair
BOB DYLAN
"You Aint Goin' Nowhere"
The first change the woman must adjust to is no longer being a bride.
SHERYL NISSINEN
The Conscious Bride
But love, love, love, there's better love I know!
This love's only day's first offer--
Next love shall defy the scoffer:
For do not bride and bridegroom sally
Out of Possagno church at noon?
Their house looks over Orcana valley--
Why not be the bride as soon
As Ottima? I saw, myself, beside,
Arrive last night that bride--
Saw, if you call it seeing her, one flash
Of the pale snow-pure cheek and blacker tresses
Than ... not the black eyelash;
A wonder she contrives those lids no dresses
--So strict was she the veil
Should cover close her pale
Pure cheeks--a bride to look at and scarce touch,
Remember Jules!--for not such
Used to be tended, flower-like, every feature,
As if one's breath would fray the lily of a creature?
ROBERT BROWNING
Pippa Passes
A sweetheart is milk, a bride is butter, and a wife is cheese.
LUDWIG BORNE
attributed, Life Sentence: The Guy's Survival Guide to Getting Engaged and Married
The enormously sophisticated, well-funded members of The Wedding Industrial Complex ... know more about brides' and grooms' anxieties than brides and grooms do. And they have made a special science of profiling the cash cow that is the modern bride.
KAMY WICOFF
I Do But I Don't: Why the Way We Marry Matters