In honor of William Shakespeare's 450th birthday, here is a list of some of my favorite quotes involving love from his works.
Shakespeare Love Quotes 1: Twelfth Night – Act 1, Scene 1
“If music be the food of love, play on”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 2: Antony & Cleopatra – Act 1, Scene 1
“There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 3: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene 1
“Speak low if you speak love”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 4: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 2
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 5: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 3, Scene 2
“Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 6: Antony & Cleopatra – Act 5, Scene 5
“The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 10: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 5
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 11: Romeo & Juliet – Act 1, Scene 1
“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 12: King Lear – Act 1, secene 1
“I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 14: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 4
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 15: The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Act 3, Scene 1
“What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 16: The Merchant of Venice – Act 2, Scene 6
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 17: Twelfth night – Act 3, Scene 1
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 18: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 3, Scene 3
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 21: The Tempest – Act 3, Scene 1
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 23: Anotony & Cleopatra – Act 3, Scene 5
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 24: Romeo & Juliet – Act 3, Scene 2
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 25: As You Like It – Act 4, Scene 3
“Love hath made thee a tame snake”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 28: Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene 3
“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 31: Macbeth – Act 2, Scene 3
“A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 32: Henry IV Part 2 – Act 3, Scene 2
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 33: Hamlet – Act 3, Scene 4
“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 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 Quotes 36: Cymbeline – Act 3, Scene 4
“Men’s vows are women’s traitors”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 38: The Two Gentlemen of Verona – Act 5, Scene 2
“Love will not be spurred to what it loathes”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 40: Love Quotes from Troilus & Cressida – Act 3, Scene 2
“To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 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 Quotes 42: Othello – Act 4, Scene 2
“His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 43: 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 Quotes 44: 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 Quotes 45: Hamlet – Act 4, Scene 7
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 46: As You Like It – Act 3, Scene 4
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 47: Othello – Act 3, Scene 3
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 48: The Merchant of Venice – Act 2, Scene 6
“Lovers ever run before the clock”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 49: Love Quotes from Othello – Act 4, Scene 3
“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 50: Love Quotes 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 Quotes 51: Love Quotes from Henry VI part 3 – Act 3, Scene 2
“I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 52: Love Quotes from Henry V – Act 5, Scene 2
“You have witchcraft in your lips”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 53: Love Quotes from Othello – Act 3, Scene 3
“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 54: The Taming of the Shrew – Act 2, Scene 7
“Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday”
Shakespeare Love Quotes 55: Love Quotes 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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