The Complete Sonnets and Poems Quotes

“Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Amore non è amore
Se muta quando scopre un mutamento
O tende a svanire quando l‘altro s‘allontana.
Oh no! Amore è un faro sempre fisso
Che sovrasta la tempesta e non vacilla mai;
È la stella che guida di ogni barca,
Il cui valore è sconosciuto, benché nota la distanza.
Amore non è soggetto al Tempo, pur se rosee labbra
E gote dovran cadere sotto la sua curva lama;
Amore non muta in poche ore o settimane,
Ma impavido resiste al giorno estremo del giudizio;
Se questo è un errore e mi sarà provato,
Io non ho mai scritto, e nessuno ha mai amato.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“The other two, slight air, and purging fire Are both with thee, wherever I abide; The first my thought, the other my desire,”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Look what is best, that best I wish in thee: This wish I have; then ten times happy me!”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tir'd; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expired:”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'This poet lies;”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive, If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert'; Or else of thee this I prognosticate: 'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive: Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave?”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems