William Shakespeare: Quotes about love
William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Speed, Act II, scene i.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
William Shakespeare book Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet
“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”
Source: Sonnet XXIII
Context: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love’s right,
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.