William Shakespeare: Quotes about love

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from th' entire point.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!”

William Shakespeare

Source: Tragedy of Coriolanus

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare

“Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night