Quotes by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Explore a curated collection of 29 quotes by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds o — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed mark — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake again — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFr — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breas — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,By self-example mayst thou be denied. — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
When I do count the clock that tells the time,And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since everyone hath every one, — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in thes — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompens — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,When other petty griefs have done their spite,But in the onset come: so shal — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in th — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed m — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed mark — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
Then the conceit of this inconstant staySets you rich in youth before my sight,Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,T — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
To give yourself away keep yourself still,And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill. — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,And, constant stars, in them I read such art,As truth and beauty shall togethe — William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets