William Shakespeare: Quotes about love

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

William Shakespeare: 1398 quotes1104 likes

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)

“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

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

*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night