Quotations on love from Shakespeare's work shakespearecandle.com The following are some Shakepeare quotations on love. 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 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. (18.1-14) Sonnet 29 For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (29.13-14) Sonnet 43 All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. (43.13-14) page 1 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love Sonnet 75 So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure, Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure; Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look; Possessing or pursuing no delight, Save what is had or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away. Sonnet 86 the prize of all too precious you, (86.2) Sonnet 88 Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. (88.13-13) 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, page 2 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (116.1-14) Venus and Adonis Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. (1.149-150) All's Well That Ends Well Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever My love as it begins shall so persever. (4.2.43-44) I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. (5.3.354) Antony and Cleopatra There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. (1.1.16) her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. (1.2.153-158) Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor, But was a race of heaven: (1.3.43-45) The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. (5.2.343-344) As You Like It Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou hadst been still with me, I could have taught my love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou, if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously page 3 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love tempered as mine is to thee. 1.2.6-12) Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. 1.2.263-264) then the love Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one: 1.3.95-96) If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved: 2.4.31-33) The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. 3.4.55) I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine: 3.5.73-74) men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.94-95) Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? (3.5.83) Hamlet This is the very ecstasy of love (2.1.112) More grief to hide than hate to utter love. (2.1.131) Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. (2.2.123-125) the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. (3.1.121-125) Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know; And as my love is sized, my fear is so: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. (3.2.164-166) Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. page 4 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change; For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. ( 3.2.195-199) Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves. (4.5.175-177) Henry V I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you:' (5.2.126-127) Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces. (5.2.302) Julius Caesar Though last, not last in love, (3.1.204) King Lear I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; (1.1.55-57) Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point. (1.1.259-261) Love's Labour's Lost Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love. (1.2.156-157) But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. (4.3.339-344) page 5 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd: Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails; (4.3.346-350) And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. (4.3.356-357) Macbeth The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, Which still we thank as love. (1.6.13-14) who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make 's love known? (2.3.142-144) He loves us not; He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. All is the fear and nothing is the love; (4.2.10-14) Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. (5.2.22-25) Measure for Measure What, do I love her, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes? (2.2.212-14) O injurious love, That respites me a life, whose very comfort Is still a dying horror! (2.3.44-46) Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with dearer love. (3.2.144-145) page 6 shakespearecandle.com Quotations on love The Merchant of Venice I love thee, and it is my love that speaks-- (1.1.90) But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; (2.6.37-38) One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. 3.2.16-18) The Merry Wives of Windsor Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.