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Quotes About Bride

Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.
~ Andreja Pejic
There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.
~ Tim Allen
After paying for the wedding about all a father has left to give away is the bride.
~ Ned Spieker
Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.
~ German proverb
In India, a bride burning-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
But we most of us lose our sense of proportion in the presence of a nun; and George, thus exposed at short range to this bride of Christ in her uncompromising medieval habit, finds himself becoming flustered, defensive. An unwilling conscript in Hell's legions, he faces the soldier of Heaven across the front-line of an exceedingly polite cold war.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Waarom staat in de evangeliën niet wie er in Kana getrouwd is? Omdat het de bruiloft van Jezus zelf was, een bruiloft waarover niet gesproken kon worden omdat hij trouwde met een zondares, Maria Magdalena. (p.385)
~ Umberto Eco
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.
~ Victor Hugo
The tattered lace of darkness still hung over the city, as if night were a grim bride trudging to the horizon, trailing her shadowy train.
~ Laini Taylor
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
~ Cassandra Clare
I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?
~ Cassandra Clare
But I will never have a bride.
~ Cassandra Clare
The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader to come around and pass judgement on his wardrobe.
~ Cassandra Clare
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Well, you must rest, later. You need to be refreshed to greet the Bride Shabbat." She smiled. For a husband and wife to make love on the Sabbath was a commandment, and it was one requirement of the faith that both of them observed with joy.
~ Geraldine Brooks
And yet, the real and deepest danger to woman did not lie along this line of refusal, but in the opposite direction. The veil is not only the symbol of the bride of man, but also of the Bride of Christ.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
But where you point…it's Lancut." For a long, perplexed moment Wiktor had looked at the map, then at his intended bride, and it was as if someone had lit a light in his face. "Darling, this is Winesooth." "Are you teasing me?" "No!" he said emphatically, pointing to the letters Lancut. "That's Winesooth. That's how we pronounce it." "Oh, Wiktor!
~ James A. Michener
I'm so laid back and not high maintenance in the slightest. If I did get married, I'd probably be dancing down the aisle with the groom. I'd like something unconventional!
~ Erin Richards
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
~ Vera Wang
I think this one's in the running for Ditzy Bride status. Not only does she want her MOH to walk her two Siamese cats down the aisle rather than carry a bouquet, but wants to include them on the guest list.
~ Nora Roberts
But of course—so Turnus can fetch his royal bride— our lives are cheap, scattered in piles across the field, unburied and unwept.
~ Virgil
Hac gener atque socer coeant mercede suorum: sanguine Troiano et Rutulo dotabere, virgo, et Bellona manet te pronuba.
~ Virgil
I have found my mate,' she murmured. 'It is the moor. I am nature's bride.
~ Virginia Woolf
After all, it is your wedding." Kate kicked me under the table. We always said that if we had a dollar for every time we heard that phrase, we'd be millionaires. If we had a dollar for each time it was sincere, we'd barely be able to split a latte.
~ Laura Durham