William Shakespeare quotes about love

“Love all, trust a few,Do wrong to none”

“But love that comes too late,To the great sender turns a sour offence.”

“If thou remember'st not the slightest follyThou hast not lov'd.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”

“But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.”

“O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.”

“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.”

“Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of fantasy.”

“This is the very ecstasy of loveAnd leads the will to desperate undertakings.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love.”

“He is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;When little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“Forty thousand brothersMake up my sum.”

“Love, whose month is ever May,Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.”

“By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.”

“You would for paradise break faith and troth,And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath.”

“A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound.”

“Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?”

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

“But love is good, and lovers cannot view themsalves unto thee. The pretty follies that themselves commit.”

“Yet I have not seenAs this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.”

“And swearing till my very roof was dry With oaths of love.”

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

“Ay me! for aught that I ever could read,The course of true love never did run smooth.”

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

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

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

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

“Friendship is constant in all other things And trust no agent.”

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

“Upon this hint I spake;Here comes the lady; let her witness it.”

“Perdition catch my soul,Chaos is come again.”

“What! keep a week away? seven days and nights? O, weary reckoning!”

“If heaven would make me such another worldI'ld not have sold her for it.”

“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate Their medicinal gum.”

“From love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed.”

“Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;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!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,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;Like soft music to attending ears.”

“'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone: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.”

“Love's heralds should be thoughts,And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.”

“Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

“Sweet, above thought I love thee.”

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

“For to be wise, and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.”

“The noblest hateful love that e'er I heard of.”

“If music be the food of love, play on;The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,Even in a minute!”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.”

“Then let thy love be younger than thyself,Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.”

“She never told her love,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;Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.”

“And writers say, as the most forward budLosing his verdure even in the prime.”

“How wayward is this foolish love, And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod.”

“O, how this spring of love resembleth And by and by a cloud takes all away!”

“Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,As seek to quench the fire of love with words. quotesbook.com”

“I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,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”