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Here’s a selection of quotes from Shakespeare’s poetry and plays commonly used at weddings – by the bride and the groom addressing each other, the pastor, the father of the bride, the groom’s, the bride’s, the best man’s speeches, and anyone else proposing a toast.
17 lip 2024 · Celebrate your wedding with some of the most romantic quotes in literature with a little help from the Bard, in SoGlos's top picks of Shakespeare's most romantic readings.
A selection of our favourite Shakespeare quotes, passages and sonnets, perfect for wedding readings. The more I have, for both are infinite. A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Above their functions and their offices. A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. When the suspicious head of theft is stopped.
Shakespeare Quotes on Marriage. Shakespeare treats the subject of marriage with both a playful sarcasm and a voice of warning. His comedies are rife with characters chasing each other in attempts to marry, whereas his tragedies portray several doomed marriages.
Shakespeare's poetry has long been a favorite choice at weddings in North America and Europe. Sonnet 116 is the most popular because it speaks to the theme of marriage directly, but Sonnet 18, hailed as the greatest love poem ever written in English, comes a close second.
Wedding readings don't get any more romantic than Shakespeare, so here are 10 of the best tear-jerking Shakespeare love quotes. Whether you're looking for a short quote or a long verse, the works of Shakespeare are packed with words which exude romance and meaning.
Best Shakespeare Love Sonnets. 1 Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame; 3 Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds; 4 Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring; 5 Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
