Shakespeare Love Quotes

If music be the food of love, play on. – from Twelfth Night

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. – from Hamlet

The course of true love never did run smooth. – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – from Romeo and Juliet

Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make poor females mad. – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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. – from Romeo and Juliet

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – from All’s Well That Ends Well

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them. – from Othello

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – from Twelfth Night

I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty. – from King Lear

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. – from Arrigo Boito’s Otello

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. – from Sonnet 116

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. – from As You Like It

For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation. – from Henry VI, Part 2

Shakespeare Love Quotes part 2

One half of me is yours, and the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. – from The Merchant of Venice

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. – from Sonnet 18

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – from Julius Caesar

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – from Twelfth Night

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – from Hamlet

Love is too young to know what conscience is. – from Sonnet 151

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. – from Venus and Adonis

The love of heaven makes one heavenly. – from Love’s Labour’s Lost

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow. – from Much Ado About Nothing

They do not love that do not show their love. – from The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The course of true love never did run smooth. – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. – from Romeo and Juliet

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. – from Romeo and Juliet

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – from Romeo and Juliet

Love hath made thee a tame snake. – from Richard III

I will make thee think thy swan a crow. – from Othello

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. – from Antony and Cleopatra

Speak low, if you speak love. – from Much Ado About Nothing

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. – from Much Ado About Nothing

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see… – from The Merchant of Venice

Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. – from Love’s Labour’s Lost

My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. – from Taming of the Shrew

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! – from Othello

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – from Twelfth Night

For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation. – from Henry VI, Part 2

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – from Romeo and Juliet

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – from Hamlet

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – from Twelfth Night

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. – from As You Like It

One half of me is yours, and the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. – from The Merchant of Venice

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. – from Sonnet 18

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – from Julius Caesar

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – from Twelfth Night

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. – from Hamlet