William Shakespeare: Quotes about love

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

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

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

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

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

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

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“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.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

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

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Love me!… Why?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: King Henry V

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

William Shakespeare

Source: Love Poems and Sonnets

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

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

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

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Variant: They do not love that do not show their love.
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

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

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“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.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet