Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Sonnets

  • December 20

    December 20

    You Ain’t Gonna Be Pretty Forever

    When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
    And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
    Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,
    Will be a tatter’d weed, of small worth held.

    –Sonnet II (2)

  • October 8

    October 8

    Morning After

    The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    Is lust in action; and till action, lust
    Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
    Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
    Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight.

    -Sonnet CXXIX (129)

  • September 7

    September 7

    She Ain’t Pretty

    My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
    Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
    If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
    If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

    –Sonnet CXXX (130)