William Shakespeare: Quotes about love

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“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)”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“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

“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)

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

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“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.”

William Shakespeare

“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.”

William Shakespeare

“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

“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…”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: When he 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
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

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

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Love is merely a madness.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“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.”

William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet