Weddings and Marriage – Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Settled Passions

Her virtues graced with external gifts
Do breed love’s settled passions in my heart.

–Henry VI Part 1,
Act V, Scene v

Spotless

And the like tender of our love we make,
To rest without a spot for evermore.

–King John,
Act V, Scene vii

I Will Be True

This interchange of love, I here protest,
Upon my part shall be unviolable.

^Richard III,
Act II, Scene i

Wedding Blessing

O, two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in;
And two such shores to two such streams made one.

-King John,
Act II, Scene i

Kiss the Bride

Turn you where your lady is
And claim her with a loving kiss.

-Merchant of Venice,
Act III, Scene ii

Commitment

I love thee
By love’s own sweet constraint, and will for ever
Do thee all rights of service.

-All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene ii

Proposal

Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not, I’ll die your maid: to be your fellow
You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.

— The Tempest,
Act III, Scene i

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