The Best William Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes on Love, Life, Dream, Friendship William Shakespeare, one of the most prominent British writers, wrote many famous plays like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and so on. Shakespeare’s literary works portray everything related to human life – love, dream, revenge, mystery, friendship etc. This post includes some very famous Shakespeare quotes.

The following Shakespeare quotes are very well known, and many people do use these quotes on various occasions. I hope you will love this collection of Shakespeare Quotes on different topics.

Love Quotes from ‘Antony & Cleopatra’

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, Which hurts and is desired

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.

Where souls do couch on flowers we’ll hand in hand…

There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned Shakespeare Quotes on love from ‘Othello’

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again

His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love

I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you

Shakespeare Love Quotes from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Speak low if you speak love

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me

Shakespeare Quotes on Love from ‘As You Like It’ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

Love hath made thee a tame snake

They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them

Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love

Shakespeare Quotes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

O teach me how I should forget to think.

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain

That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

There’s no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.

I have more care to stay, than will to go.

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change. If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.