shakespeare love quotes
Shakespeare Love Quotes
There is a reason Shakespeare is considered the king of all literary work, and there is a reason that his feelings and expressions about love still manage to touch a chord. Learn more from this literary genius with his best outpourings on love.
Love is an exceptional feeling that cannot be defined with just words. You need to experience love to understand it is. If you are one of those lucky individuals who has found love and is experiencing eternal bliss, then you will be able to relate to and understand the true meaning of the many words of love that William Shakespeare has written.
A great writer who understood the fine qualities of love, he could express the human emotion of love artistically through his writings. So, if you are searching for some beautiful words that you can use and write while sending out a love letter for your special someone, then this article will help you with some famous quotes on love by Shakespeare.
Love Quotes from Romeo and Juliet
- My only love sprung from my only hate; too early unknown and known too late.
- See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!
- Love give me strength and strength will help me through
- Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny they father, and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
- O, swear not be the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest thy love proves likewise variable.
- Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morow.
- O! She doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.
- O true apothecary! The drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
- Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous; and it pricks like thorn.
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet
- These violent delights have violent ends...
- Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
- How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
- 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.
- Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set, On the fair daughter of rich Capulet: As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; And all combined, save what thou must combine, By holy marriage: when and where and how, We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us to-day.
- Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love ... doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling.
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- Cupid is a knavsh lad, thus to make females mad
- We cannot fight for love as men may do, we shall be wooed and were not made to woo.
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
- For you in my respect are all the world
- O hell! to choose love with another's eye
- You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame
- Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love
- Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it
- This is the very ecstasy of love.
- When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
- Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.