Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116 Quotes

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Love Quotes

…the marriage of true minds (1)

Loyalty Quotes

…love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. (2-4)

Mortality Quotes

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come, Love alters not with [Time’s] brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to...

Literature and Writing Quotes

If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (13-14)