“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
William Shakespeare

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ANNIVERSARY
Read 200 beautiful anniversary quotes about lasting love, marriage and growing old together from Shakespeare, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
William Shakespeare
“Hear my soul speak: the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”
William Shakespeare
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
William Shakespeare
“Thy love is better than high birth to me.”
William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
William Shakespeare
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe
“Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine.”
Ben Jonson
“For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
John Donne
“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
John Donne
“She's all states, and all princes I, nothing else is.”
John Donne
“Had we but world enough and time.”
Andrew Marvell
“I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.”
Richard Lovelace
“But to see her was to love her; love but her, and love for ever.”
Robert Burns
“One word is too often profaned for me to profane it.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The fountains mingle with the river and the rivers with the Ocean, the winds of Heaven mix for ever with a sweet emotion.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you.”
John Keats
“In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Our echoes roll from soul to soul, and grow for ever and for ever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her!”
Robert Browning
“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love thee to the level of every day's most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning