Shakespeare’s Love Quotes
No Sweat Shakespeare has a romantic soul and would like to share our favourite Shakespearean love quotes with you. The top 50 Shakespeare love quotes below are taken from the plays only – if we’d looked into Shakespeare’s sonnets we’d never have known where to stop! So, without further ado, here are the all time top love quotes from Shakespeare:
Shakespeare love quote 1: Twelfth Night – Act 1, Scene 1
If music be the food of love, play on
Shakespeare love quote 2: Antony & Cleopatra – Act 1, Scene 1
There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned
Shakespeare love quote 3: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene 1
Speak low if you speak love
Shakespeare love quote 4: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 2
The course of true love never did run smooth
Shakespeare love quote 5: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 3, Scene 2
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
Shakespeare love quote 6: Antony & Cleopatra – Act 5, Scene 5
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is dersired
Shakespeare love quote 7: Henry VI Part 1 – Act 5, Scene 2
She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won
Shakespeare love quote 8: 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
Shakespeare love quote 9: 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
Shakespeare love quote 10: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 5
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Shakespeare love quote 11: Romeo & Juliet – Act 1, Scene 1
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
Shakespeare love quote 12: King Lear – Act 1, secene 1
I love you more than workds can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
Shakespeare love quote 13: The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Act 3, Scene 1
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
Shakespeare love quote 14: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
Shakespeare love quote 15: 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?
Shakespeare love quote 16: The Merchant of Venice – Act 2, Scene 6
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit
Shakespeare love quote 17: Twelfth night – Act 3, Scene 1
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
Shakespeare love quote 18: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 3, Scene 3
Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad
Shakespeare love quote 19: 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
Shakespeare love quote 20: 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
Shakespeare love quote 21: The Tempest – Act 3, Scene 1
I would not wish any companion in the world but you
Shakespeare love quote 22: 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
Shakespeare love quote 23: Anotony & Cleopatra – Act 3, Scene 5
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
Shakespeare love quote 24: Romeo & Juliet – Act 3, Scene 2
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
Shakespeare love quote 25: As You Like It – Act 4, Scene 3
Love hath made thee a tame snake
Shakespeare love quote 26: Othello – Act 1, Scene 3
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them
Shakespeare love quote 27: 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
Shakespeare love quote 28: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene 3
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
Shakespeare love quote 29: 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
Shakespeare love quote 30: As You Like It – Act 2, Scene 4
In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
Shakespeare love quote 31: Macbeth – Act 2, Scene 3
A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known
Shakespeare love quote 32: Henry IV Part 2 – Act 3, Scene 2
For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thouh art not, desolation
Shakespeare love quote 33: Hamlet – Act 3, Scene 4
You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame
Shakespeare love quote 34: 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
Shakespeare love quote 35: As You Like It – Act 4, Scene 1
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love
Shakespeare love quote 36: Cymbeline – Act 3, Scene 4
Men’s vows are women’s traitors
Shakespeare love quote 37: Romeo & Juliet – Act 1, Scene 1
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof
Shakespeare love quote 38: The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Act 5, Scene 2
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
Shakespeare love quote 39: Romeo & Juliet – Act 2, Scene 1
This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
Shakespeare love quote 40: Love quote from Troilus & Cressida – Act 3, Scene 2
To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might
Shakespeare love quote 41: 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
Shakespeare love quote 42: Othello – Act 4, Scene 2
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love
Shakespeare love quote 43: 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
Shakespeare love quote 44: 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!
Shakespeare love quote 45: 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
Shakespeare love quote 46: 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?
Shakespeare love quote 47: Hamlet – Act 4, Scene 7
Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it
Shakespeare love quote 48: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
Shakespeare love quote 49: 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
Shakespeare love quote 50: The Merchant of Venice – Act 2, Scene 6
Lovers ever run before the clock
Shakespeare love quote 51: Love quote from Othello – Act 4, Scene 3
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestinefor a touch of his nether lip
Shakespeare love quote 52: Love quote from Henry V – Act 5, Scene 2
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you’
Shakespeare love quote 53: Love quote from Henry VI part 3 – Act 3, Scene 2
I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap
Shakespeare love quote 54: Love quote from Henry V – Act 5, Scene 2
You have witchcraft in your lips
Shakespeare love quote 55: Love quote from Othello – Act 3, Scene 3
I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you
Shakespeare love quote 56: The Taming of the Shrew – Act 2, Scene 7
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday
Shakespeare love quote 57: Love quote from 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
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4 Responses to Shakespeare’s Love Quotes
i love Williams Shakespeare
the best wise and captivating lines
i played on 2 shakespeare plays, hamlet and midsummers night dream
great love quotes, and the best part, is that you can find quotes depending on what you want to …your love state…or what you want to say to someone else…very useful for writing love notes!
(great love quotes)
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