Shakespeare's Love Quotes
NoSweatShakespeare has a romantic soul and would like to share our favourite Shakespearean love quotes with you. We've browsed the plays only - if we'd looked into the poems and sonnets we'd never have known where to stop! Here they are:
Twelfth Night - Act 1, Scene 1
If music be the food of love, play on
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 1
Speak low if you speak love
Antony & Cleopatra - Act 1, Scene 1
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 2
The course of true lovenever did run smooth
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 3, Scene 2
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
Antony & Cleopatra - Act 5, Scene 5
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is dersired
Henry VI Part 1 - Act 5, Scene 2
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 1
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
The Tempest - Act 3, Scene 1
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 1
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
King Lear - Act 1, secene 1
I love you more than workds can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Whiat is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
The Merchant of Venice - Act 2, Scene 6
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit
Twlefth night - Act 3, Scene 1
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 3, Scene 3
Cupid is a knavsh lad, thus to make females mad
Romeo & Juliet - Act 2, Scene 6
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight
Hamlet - Act 2, Scene 2
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
The Tempest - Act 3, Scene 1
I would not wish any companion in the world but you
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine
Anotony & Cleopatra - Act 3, Scene 5
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
Romeo & Juliet - Act 3, Scene 2
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
As You Like It - Act 4, Scene 3
Love hath made thee a tame snake
Othello - Act 1, Scene 3
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 1, Scene 3
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 3
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5
Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love
As You Like It - Act 2, Scene 4
In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 3
A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make's love known
Henry IV Part 2 - Act 3, Scene 2
For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thouh art not, desolation
Hamlet - Act 3, Scene 4
you cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 3
She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known
As You Like It - Act 4, Scene 1
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love
Cymbeline - Act 3, Scene 4
Men's vows are women's traitors
Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 1
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 5, Scene 2
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
Romeo & Juliet - Act 2, Scene 1
This bud of love by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
Troilus & Cressida - Act 3, Scene 2
To be wise and love, Exceeds man's might
As You Like It - Act 5, Scene 2
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them
Othello - Act 4, Scene 2
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love
Romeo & Juliet - Act 2, Scene 6
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy , That one short minute gives me in her sight
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 5, Scene 1
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
Romeo & Juliet - Act 2, Scene 6
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy , That one short minute gives me in her sight
Troilus & Cressida - Act 3, Scene 1
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?
Hamlet - Act 4, Scene 7
Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
Othello - Act 3, Scene 3
Excellent wretch! Perditon catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again
The Merchant of Venice - Act 2, Scene 6
Lovers ever run before the clock
Othello - Act 4, Scene 3
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestinefor a touch of his nether lip
Henry V - Act 5, Scene 2
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you'
Henry VI part 3 - Act 3, Scene 2
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
Henry V - Act 5, Scene 2
You have witchcraft in your lips
Othello - Act 3, Scene 3
I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you
The Taming of the Shrew - Act 2, Scene 7
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 1, Scene 1
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me
