Bride/gallery

Famous quotes containing the words bride and/or gallery:

    He took the bride about the neck
    And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack
    That at the parting all the church did echo.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)