“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Source: As You Like It
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
Source: Hamlet, Act III, scene i.
“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”
Source: Sonnet XXIII
Context: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love’s right,
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.