Famous Shakespeare Love Quotes

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Carnal or cerebral?

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust´s effect is tempest after sun;
Love´s gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust´s winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis

Love is in a hurry

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth´s a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare (this is one of the most famous Shakespeare love quotes!)

Twelfth Night

I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered; and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a postscript.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

He after honour hunts, I after love: He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love. Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought; Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: What, did he marry me to famish me? Beggars, that come unto my father´s door, Upon entreaty have a present aims; If not, elsewhere they meet with charity: But I, who never knew how to entreat, Nor never needed that I should entreat, Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, With oath kept waking and with brawling fed: And that which spites me more than all these wants, He does it under name of perfect love; As who should say, if I should sleep or eat, ?Twere deadly sickness or else present death. I prithee go and get me some repast; I care not what, so it be wholesome food.

Taming of the Shrew

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage;

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

Venus and Adonis

“O, know´st thou not his looks are my soul´s food? Pity the dearth that I have pined in, By longing for that food so long a time. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow As seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Signior Hortensio, twixt such friends as we
Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
One rich enough to be Petruchio´s wife,
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
Be she as foul as was Florentius´ love,
As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates´ Xanthippe, or a worse,
She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Affection´s edge in me, were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

Famous Shakespeare Love Quotes

Taming of the Shrew

“Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste, And every day I cannot come to woo. You knew my father well, and in him me, Left solely heir to all his lands and goods, Which I have better´d rather than decreased: Then tell me, if I get your daughter´s love, What dowry shall I have with her to wife?”

Famous Shakespeare Love Quotes

Taming of the Shrew

Love among the old?

“Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more am I; go to then, there´s sympathy: you are merry, so am I; ha, ha! then there´s more sympathy: you love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,-- that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; ?tis not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me, Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might For thee to fight. . .”

Merry Wives of Windsor

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies´ force, Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill, Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it finds a joy above the rest: But these particulars are not my measure; All these I better in one general best. Thy love is better than high birth to me, Richer than wealth, prouder than garments´ cost, Of more delight than hawks or horses be; And having thee, of all men´s pride I boast: Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take All this away and me most wretched make.

Famous Shakespeare Love Quotes

Sonnets

When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor´d youth, Unlearned in the world´s false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress´d. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O, love´s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told: Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter´d be.

William Shakespeare

Sonnets

“Petruchio, since we are stepp´d thus far in, I will continue that I broach´d in jest. I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife With wealth enough and young and beauteous, Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman: Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold.””

Venus and Adonis

Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death; Come not within the measure of my wrath; Do not name Silvia thine; if once again, Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands; Take but possession of her with a touch: I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. Forgive me that I do not dream on thee, Because thou see´st me dote upon my love. My foolish rival, that her father likes Only for his possessions are so huge, Is gone with her along, and I must after, For love, thou know´st, is full of jealousy.”

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Many of these famous Shakespeare love quotes are suitable for Valentine's Day but beware, from time to time, the Bard cast a jaded eye upon the institution of marriage.

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