Brides Quotes - Page 7

• Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

  Peter O'Toole

  Feet, Bridesmaids

  "Peter O'Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, dies aged 81" by Robert Booth, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2013.

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• Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

  Djuna Barnes

  Thinking

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

  Frank Muir

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to decide what's for some, that others should hide. Pride. Nobody gets to choose but YOU.

  Maria Doyle Kennedy

  Husband, Pride, Lovers

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• Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Girl, Dying, Dresses

  Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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• The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Husband, Book, Typical

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• Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

  Cyprian

  Son, Church, Christ

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• The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion.

  Pope Leo I

  Errors, Church, Doe

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• Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Eye, Perfect, Details

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• In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to this country, and it cost them their lives. We must let women know they have options.

  Maria Cantwell

  Country, Husband, Order

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!

  Alison Brie

  Girl, Dream, Dresses

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not the perfect bride after all.

  Jenna Bush

  Perfect

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• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

  John Mahoney

  Sister, War, United States

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• After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

  Evan Esar

  Father, Giving, Left

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• Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.

  Jacob Grimm

  Evil, House, Grimm

  Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Wilhelm Grimm, Tracy Dockray (1997). “Grimm's grimmest”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

  Lou Reed

  Pain, Poetry, Lovers

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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• A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's family doesn't like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a "kitchen fire".

  Barbara Crossette

  Suicide, Feminist, Kitchen

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, White, Lovely

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• Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see it well.” “We spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,” said Alexander. “We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.” Her hands went on his face. “That’s all any of us ever has, my love,” she said. “And it all flies by.” “Yes,” he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. “But what a five minutes it’s been.

  Paullina Simons

  Kids, Eye, Hands

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• Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Hunting, Color

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day? Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Buttercup: Well...you were dead. Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. Buttercup: i will never doubt again. Westley: There will never be a need.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Love You, Thinking

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• Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

  William Goldman

  Wedding, West, Eternity

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.211, A&C Black

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• Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Guests, Sides, Staring

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• Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Alex, Bigs

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