Top 100 Sayings About A Bride
#1. A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#2. Just before the top of the hill she stopped, breathed deeply, and tried to muster her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the last mirror before the aisle.
Edward St. Aubyn
#3. Not from his head was woman took,
As made her husband to o'erlook;
Not from his feet, as one designed
The footstool of the stronger kind;
But fashioned for himself, a bride;
An equal, taken from his side.
Charles Wesley
#4. White lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse.
Kate Atkinson
#6. She is not for you. She is a wild one
wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi.
Bernard Malamud
#7. If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.
Lauren Oliver
#8. I was to be a bride, but whose? Councilor Branwick had assured me that the Council of Citizens would let me know the moment they decided.
Lea Carter
#9. Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding
To a bride with a paper ring
And half of my heart is the part of a man
Who's never truly loved anything
John Mayer
#10. A white linen tablecloth
edged with pink roses --
Mama's favorite pattern --
flowed like a bride's train
from sidewalk to curb to gutter.
Papa stared at black boot marks
crossing it like sins.
Paul B. Janeczko
#11. The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.
Thomas S. Monson
#12. My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!
Sasha Pieterse
#13. The first time you see your grown-up little miss looking back at you from a sea of white chiffon or beaded satin glory, indeed your heart will skip a beat. You'll find yourself blinking back tears. That elusive someday has suddenly become now. Your little girl - your jewel - is going to be a bride.
Cheryl Barker
#14. Her whole body shivered and her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust. She put it together again slowly, as if lifting a great weight, by sheer will power. The smile came back, with a couple of corners badly bent.
Raymond Chandler
#15. Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?
Djuna Barnes
#16. as I watched their approach I wondered whether the slow pace of a wedding march was for the benefit of a bride on her most beautiful day, or for the aging father preparing to give her away.
Nickolas Butler
#17. you are
as fleetingly beautiful
as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks
a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood
a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.
Sanober Khan
#18. On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.
Lauren DeStefano
#19. It doesn't make sense. Or, rather, it makes just one kind of sense. Hanky-panky. Ben is as used to hanky-panky as a bride is to kisses. He didn't get to be one of the best winchells in the business through playing his cards face up.
Robert A. Heinlein
#20. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E.W. Howe
#21. My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
Christine Teigen
#22. In Rasoolabad, India, a bride called off her wedding when her groom said that 15 + 6 = 17.
Anonymous
#23. As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
Jessica Valenti
#24. Loan me your lace of yellow, sister
Lend me your fine kid gloves
Tonight is the bridal ball, sister
Tonight I'll meet my love
Present me a sash of blue, sister
Gift me a ribbon of white
My love awaits me below, sister
I am a bride tonight
Shannon Hale
#25. A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
#26. Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
Hans Christian Andersen
#27. The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
Douglas Coupland
#28. She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.
Ian McEwan
#29. He knew exactly what was due east and if his parents wanted him to bring a bride back to the castle, then heading towards the fire-breathing dragon was the wrong way to go about it. Any princess daft enough to get herself captured by a dragon was on her own." Prince Aiden on finding a bride.
L.M. Brown
#30. Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman - almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.
Charlotte Bronte
#31. I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
Lou Holtz
#32. When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
Madeleine L'Engle
#33. A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.
Letitia Baldrige
#34. I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
Gwen Stefani
#35. It is twenty-four years since I was a bride at old Green Gables - the happiest bride that ever was - and the wedding-veil of a happy bride brings good luck,
L.M. Montgomery
#37. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace Stegner
#38. Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?
Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.
Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel,
Where finally a horse could take a bride ...
Cynthia Hand
#39. It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
Frank Muir
#40. How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party?
Reem Acra
#41. You're a demon," I said. "I feel like a bride guarding my virginity before the wedding." "Well, then feel free to give it up, Ryan," she said, pushing up onto her toes to kiss me.
Christina Lauren
#42. Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.
Bill Johnson
#43. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up
Julie Klassen
#44. In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.
Pope John Paul II
#45. I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
Niecy Nash
#46. Shanna was across the room with her new husband, chatting happily with Gregori's mother.
With a sly grin, Gregori motioned toward them. Let's go congratulate Roman for taking five hundred years to find a bride.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#47. Therefore, at Pentecost, which brings The Spring, clothed like a bride, When nestling buds unfold their wings, And bishop's-caps have golden rings, Musing upon many things, I sought the woodlands wide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#48. Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
William Butler Yeats
#49. 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
#50. To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
Joanna Lumley
#51. One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
#52. Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning
Jean Kerr
#53. Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
Nadeem Aslam
#55. Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
Thomas Hardy
#56. As I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing
L.M. Montgomery
#58. I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
John Guare
#59. A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland
#60. Agatha, you dressed as a bride for Halloween."
"Weddings are scary.
Soman Chainani
#62. We may have an education, but we are living on a bride between knowledge and wisdom. We think of ourselves as educated, but we may not always be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#63. A gown does not make a bride, just as a few empty threats do not make a rebel.
Morgan Rhodes
#64. You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers. Most importantly, you can be queen and still be a bride.
Kiera Cass
#65. The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.
Cinda Williams Chima
#66. Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
Evelyn Waugh
#67. When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.
Max Lucado
#68. The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. O lovely river of Yvette!
O darling river! like a bride,
Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
O lovely river Yvette!
O darling stream! on balanced wings
The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
That here a wandering poet sings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#70. My mother had never openly protested my relationship with Sydney. Really, there'd been no chance. I'd simply shown up at Court with a bride in tow, and no one had been able to put asunder those whom the state of Nevada had brought together.
Richelle Mead
#71. If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
William Shakespeare
#72. The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.
Hafez
#73. phrase "often a bridesmaid, never a bride" originated with a 1925 Listerine advertisement.)
Steven Johnson
#74. In one of her more philosophical moments, she decided that the reason virginity was so prized for a bride was because early man must have realized that a bride who knew what was in store for her on her wedding night, would not be smiling quite so radiantly when she walked down that aisle!
Judith McNaught
#76. The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Vincente Minnelli
#77. No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.
Tina Brown
#78. Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.
Roman Payne
#79. The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.
Henry Suso
#80. God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!
Billy Graham
#81. You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ... ? I wonder what I was blushing about?
Gracie Allen
#82. Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
Cassandra Clare
#83. Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.
Donna Tartt
#84. 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
#85. Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
A.E. Housman
#86. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear
Sherry Thomas
#87. 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
#88. The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
Sarah Dessen
#89. He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
Hayim Nahman Bialik
#90. It took every ounce of self-control I could muster to keep my eyes focused on my work and not on you the entire time. All I could see was the way your nose would shrivel slightly when you laughed... The longing in your eyes for a love like that of the bride and groom.
Janna Sproul
#91. The Sultan's wife must never remain without books that please her: a clause in the marriage contract is involved, a condition the bride imposed on her august suitor before agreeing to the wedding ...
Italo Calvino
#92. Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing - "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.
Mark Twain
#93. When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'
Phil Wickham
#95. For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
Phyllis Battelle
#96. But right now, at the wedding supper, a bigger problem was emerging. Every time G thought about how to break the news to her, he gulped down a cup of ale. And he thought about it a lot. Every time he looked at his new bride. And he looked at her a lot.
Cynthia Hand
#97. I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride
Yangzee Choo
#98. We had a really fun time working together on the film. With myself as a pirate. And she as a fair maiden. Running off together in the spirit of love and adventure.
Cary Elwes
#99. If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
R.C. Sproul
#100. Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride's cornflakes.
Jane Gardam
