beloved quotes

   My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 2:16.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Matrimony, Exhortation.

The oldlike childrentalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
   Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

Cry, the Beloved Country.

- Alan Paton
  Title of book.

   All things are literally better, lovelier, more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinelyappointed.

-John Ruskin
^3  The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.6.