William Shakespeare: Quotes about love

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

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

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I 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…”

“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”

“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.
--Romeo”

“Love is merely a madness.”

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”