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Shakespeare’s Love Quotes from Romeo and Juliet
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”
“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.”
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.”
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!”
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.”
“One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.”
Best Hamlet Quotes About Love
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there.”
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
“I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.”
“This is the very ecstasy of love.”
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love.”
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
Shakespeare’s Love Quotes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” (Act I, scene i)
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” (Act I, scene ii)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
Shakespeare’s Love Quotes from other Plays
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, ‘I love you.’” (Henry V, Act V, scene ii)
“Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you did
My heart fly to your service…” (The Tempest, Act III, scene i)
“I do love you more than words can wield the matter.” (King Lear, Act I, scene i)
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.” (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.” (All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 1, scene i)
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound.” (Love’s Labor’s Lost, Act IV, scene iii)
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” (Troilus and Cressida, Act III, scene i)
“Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man’s son doth know.” (Twelfth Night, Act II, scene iii)
“Love sought is good, but given unsought better.” (Twelfth Night, Act III, scene i)
“One half of me is yours, the other half yours—
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.” (The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene ii)
Love Quotes from Shakespeare’s Sonnets
“In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.
This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.” (Sonnet 73)
“My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please.” (Sonnet 147)
“Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” (Sonnet 29)
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