"'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone: And yet no further than a wanton's bird; Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty."

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'ld not have sold her for it."

"What! keep a week away? seven days and nights? Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, More tedious than the dial eight score times? O, weary reckoning!"

"Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme: of one, whose hand Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, Richer than all his tribe: of one, whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum."

"Upon this hint I spake; She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her, that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us'd: Here comes the lady; let her witness it."

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."

"Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."

"From love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed."

"Speak low, if you speak love."

"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."

"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent."

"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better."

"Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills; Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings."

"Steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks."

"They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform."

"Love that well which thou must leave ere long."

"There is no creature loves me, And if I die, no soul shall pity me."

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove; O no! It is an ever-fixèd mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wand'ring bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool. Though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd."

"Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge."

"Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, As seal to the indenture of my love"

"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."

"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee."

"For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where thou art not, desolation"

"Not that I lov'd Caesar less, but that I lov'd Rome more."

"I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss."

"I know not why I love this youth; and I have heard you say, Love's reason's without reason."

"Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give."

"Though last, not least in love!"

"What 'tis to love? how want of love tormenteth?"

"Love keeps his revels where there are but twain."

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"

"Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale."

"I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason."

"They do not love that do not show their love."

"Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain"

"How wayward is this foolish love, That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod."

"And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime."

"O, how this spring of love resembleth Th' uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!"

"For he was more than over shoes in love."

"Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise."

"Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow, As seek to quench the fire of love with words. quotesbook.com"

"There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned."

"When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave."

"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity."

"Ay me! for aught that I ever could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end"

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."