Some of our favourite quotations about love and marriage: The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. -- J. G. Holland There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. -- George Sand Although I conquer all the earth, Yet for me there is only one city.  In that city there is for me only one house;  And in that house, one room only And in that room, a bed. And one woman sleeps there, The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.  -- Anonymous, Ancient India

Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove... -- Christopher Marlowe

The sea has its pearls, the heavens its stars, I love you without question, But my heart, my heart, My heart has its love. -- Heinrich Heine

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart  since I have been in love with you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne to his wife, Sophia

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. -- Christina Rossetti

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. -- William Shakespeare

My heart to thy heart, My hand to thine, My lips to thy lips, Kisses are wine... -- Paul Laurence Dunbar

So let our love...endless prove, and pure as gold forever. -- Robert Herrick I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other As long as we live? -- Walt Whitman I love thee—I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day. -- Thomas Hood My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key. -- Frederick Saunders

All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant Muments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. -- Sarah Bernhardt, to Victorien Sardou

I do love you...as the dew loves the flowers; as the birds love the sunshine; as the wavelets love the breeze... as the angels love the pure in heart. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right, I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old grief’s, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it. -- Keats When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other...there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven...This is the love which you inspire in me.  -- Victor Hugo Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine;  Or leave a kiss but in the cup and I'll not look for wine. -- Ben Jonson Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. -- Friedrich Halm

And I shall dream both before and after I go to sleep, of the little flower that has sprung up in the desert beside me and shed its fragrance over my life and made its ways attractive with its beauty and turned its weariness to contentment with its sweet spirit. And I shall bless you, my darling, out of a fullness of a heart that knows your worth beyond the ken of any...better than all others I can love you, and do love you, and shall always love you, always. Good night, darling—and peaceful slumbers refresh you and ministering angels attend you.  -- Mark Twain to his wife, Olivia Langdon

You are my husband. My feet shall run because of you. My feet, dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes, see because of you. My mind, thinks because of you. And I shall love because of you.-- Eskimo love song

My deepest, strongest desire in marrying you, Darling, is to make you happy, and I would put into this some word of love which would seem to your heart a sort of sweet preface to the book of love  which we are about to open together, to read new secrets of sympathy and companionship. I would have you catch a glimpse of my purpose for the future and of the joy which that future contains for me, of the gratitude I feel for your priceless gift of love, and of the infinite love and tenderness which is the gift of my whole heart to you. -- Woodrow Wilson