William Shakespeare quotes about love

"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."

"She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek; she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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!"

"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"

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"

"Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Though last, not least in love!"

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

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

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

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

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

"Speak low, if you speak love."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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!"

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; Cry but—"Ay me!" pronounce but "love" and "dove.""

"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"

"O, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

"For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt."

"At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs."

"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."

"Love goes toward love, as school-boys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."

"It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like soft music to attending ears."

"'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."