William Shakespeare: Quotes about love (page 3)

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

“Love me!… Why?”

“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“They do not love, that do not show their love.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”