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Famous Shakespeare Love Quotes
Shakespeare Love Quotes are classic romantic verbiage. Following is just a sampling of the rich array of heartfelt sentiment from the Bard.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Romeo and Juliet"
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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.
I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.
So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.
Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it sight,
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Love goes toward love.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.
Popularly paraphrased as "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
take him and cut him out in little stars,
and he will make the face of heaven so fine
that all the world will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy ,
That one short minute gives me in her sight.
This bud of love by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear...
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On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand may seize
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
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| When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. |
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Twelfth Night"
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Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honor, truth, and everything,
I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What´s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth´s a stuff will not endure.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage;
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "King Lear"
I love you more than words can wield the matter,
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "As You Like It"
No sooner met but they looked;
No sooner looked but they loved;
No sooner loved but they sighed;
No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
Love hath made thee a tame snake.
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In thy youth wast as true a lover,
As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.
They are in the very wrath of love,
and they will go together.
Clubs cannot part them.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Hamlet"
Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
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Love is begun by time,
And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
This is the very ecstasy of love.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Othello"
She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
Excellent wretch!
Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee,
and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.
I humbly do beseech of your pardon,
For too much loving you.
O thou weed,
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
That the sense aches at thee.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Antony and Cleopatra"
Cleopatra, Scene from "Antony and Cleopatra" by Christian Printz
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. |
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,
And we are for the dark.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
Egypt, thou knew'st too well
My heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings,
And thou shouldst tow me after.
Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Merry Wives of Windsor"
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Ask me no reason why I love you;
for though Love use Reason for his physician,
he admits him not for his counsellor.
You are not young, no more am I;
go to then, there´s sympathy:
you are merry, so am I;
ha, ha! then there´s more sympathy:
you love sack, and so do I;
would you desire better sympathy?
Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,
--at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,
-- that I love thee.
I will not say, pity me;
'tis not a soldier-like phrase:
but I say, love me.
By me, Thine own true knight,
By day or night,
Or any kind of light,
With all his might
For thee to fight. . .
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Henry V"
I know no ways to mince it in love,
but directly to say 'I love you'.
You have witchcraft in your lips.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
He after honour hunts, I after love:
He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
O, know´st thou not his looks are my soul´s food?
Pity the dearth that I have pined in,
By longing for that food so long a time.
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.
Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;
Come not within the measure of my wrath;
Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,
Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands;
Take but possession of her with a touch:
I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.
What is light, if Sylvia be not seen?
What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
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Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.
Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.
My foolish rival, that her father likes
Only for his possessions are so huge,
Is gone with her along, and I must after,
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth,
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all beauty of the Sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "MacBeth"
A heart to love, and in that heart,
Courage, to make's love known.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Venus and Adonis"
When he did frown, O, had she then gave over,
Such nectar from his lips she had not suck´d.
Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover;
What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck´d:
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy
Doth call himself Affection´s sentinel;
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!´
Distempering gentle Love in his desire,
As air and water do abate the fire.
Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
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Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;
Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust´s effect is tempest after sun;
Love´s gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust´s winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Henry IV Part 2"
For where thou art, there is the world itself,
And where thou art not, desolation.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclined.
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Henry VI Part 3"
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Henry VIII"
The fairest hand I ever touched: O beauty, Till now I never knew thee.(King Henry VIII, upon meeting Anne Boleyn.)
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Troilus and Cressida"
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To be wise and love, Exceeds man's might.
Is this the generation of love?
Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds?
Why, they are vipers.
Is love a generation of vipers?
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.
Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Much Ado About Nothing"
Love goes by haps;
Some Cupid kills with arrows,
some with traps.
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.
Shakespeare Love Quotes From "Taming of the Shrew"
Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed:
And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on;
And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;
For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,
Thou must be married to no man but me;
For I am he am born to tame you Kate,
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates.
Here comes your father: never make denial;
I must and will have Katharina to my wife.
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday.
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From "The Tempest"
Miranda, the Tempest, 1916 by John Waterhouse
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Hear my soul speak.
Of the very instant that I saw you,
Did my heart fly at your service.
I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the world! (...)
O you, so perfect and so peerless are created of every creature's best. |
At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
What I desire to give, and much less take
What I shall die to want.
But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it shows.
Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
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Shakespeare Love Quotes From the Sonnets
Some of My Favorite Shakespeare Sonnets
Wildflowers and Sonnets I
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Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
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Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Wildflowers and Sonnets II
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Sonnet 91
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their bodies´ force,
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill,
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments´ cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men´s pride I boast:
Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
All this away and me most wretched make.
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Sonnet 138
When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor´d youth,
Unlearned in the world´s false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress´d.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love´s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter´d be.
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Sonnet 116
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-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering 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 proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white;
But no such roses I see in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath from my mistress reaks:
I love to hear her speak,
yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.
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Sonnet 57
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.
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MORE Shakespeare Love Quotes:
Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. Forgive me that I do not dream on thee, Because thou see´st me dote upon my love. My foolish rival, that her father likes Only for his possessions are so huge, Is gone with her along, and I must after, For love, thou know´st, is full of jealousy.
Mine ear is enamoured by thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled by thy shape;
and thy fair virtues force perforce doth move me;
to say, to swear, I love thee.
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