William Shakespeare Love Quotes

Love is a something that means different things to different people. It is a relationship of respect and mutual understanding between the partners. Love in Shakespeare is a recurrent theme. Shakespeare has written a lot of quotes about love and here are the best quotes of him.

Shakespeare Love Quote

• ‘If music be the food of love, play on’
• ‘There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned’
• ‘Speak low if you speak love’
• ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’
• ‘Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’
•  ‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired’
• ‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won’
• ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind’
• ‘Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’
• ‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’
• ‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’
• ‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty’
• ‘Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by’
• ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’
• ‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit’
• ‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’
• ‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad’
• ‘Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’
•  ‘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’
• ‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you’
• ‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine’
• ‘Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love’
• ‘Love hath made thee a tame snake’
• ‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them’
• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
  And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
• “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (Act I, scene ii)
• “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” (Act IV, scene i)
• “I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.” (Act V, scene ii)
• “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, ‘I love you.’” (Henry V, Act V, scene ii)
• “I do love you more than words can wield the matter.” (King Lear, Act I, scene i)
• “Sweet, above thought I love thee.” (Troilus and Cressida, Act III, scene i)
• “Love sought is good, but given unsought better.” (Twelfth Night, Act III, scene i)
• “Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
• “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
• “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
  And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
• “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
• “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.”
• “What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter:
  Present mirth hath present laughter.”
• “I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”
• “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.”
• “Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
• “I kiss thee with a most constant heart.”
• “A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.”
• “So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
  Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.”
• “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
• “Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life.”
• “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
• “When you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”
• Love all, trust a few,
  Do wrong to none
• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
• No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason.
• Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love.
• He is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this.
• By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.
• And swearing till my very roof was dry
  With oaths of love.
• When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.
• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
• From love’s weak childish bow she lives unharmed.
• Steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.
• Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
  That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
• Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
  Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
• They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform.
• The noblest hateful love that e’er I heard of.
• Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better.
• For he was more than over shoes in love.
• Love keeps his revels where there are but twain.
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain
• Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain

Shakespeare Love Quotes Romeo and Juliet

• “These violent delights have violent ends
  And in their triump die, like fire and powder
  Which, as they kiss, consume”
• “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.”
• “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
• “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
  That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
• “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
• “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
• “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
• “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
• “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
• “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
• “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
  It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

• “These violent delights have violent ends.”
• “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”
• “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
• “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
• “There’s an old saying that applies to me: you can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)”
• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
  And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
• Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
  Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
• If music be the food of love, play on.
• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
• I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
• Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.
• “Under loves heavy burden do I sink.”
• “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
• “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
  Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
  Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
  And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
• “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
  May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
• “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
• “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.”
• “A plague o’ both your houses!”
• “Tempt not a desperate man”
• “For never was a story of more woe
  Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
• A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
• For this alliance may so happy prove,
  To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.

William Shakespeare Love Quotes

• “LOVE LOOKS NOT WITH THE EYES, BUT WITH THE MIND, AND THEREFORE IS WING’D CUPID PAINTED BLIND.” 
• “NO SOONER MET BUT THEY LOOKED, NO SOONER LOOKED BUT THEY LOVED, NO SOONER LOVED, BUT THEY SIGHED, NO SOONER SIGHED BUT THEY ASKED ONE ANOTHER THE REASON.”
• “WHAT’S IN A NAME? THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE,
  BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET.”
• “LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.”
• “LOVE COMFORTETH LIKE SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN.”
• “AND WHEN LOVE SPEAKS, THE VOICE OF ALL THE GODS MAKES HEAVEN DROWSY WITH THE HARMONY.”
•  ‘If music be the food of love, play on’
•  ‘There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned’
•  ‘Speak low if you speak love’
• ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’
• ‘Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’
• ‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired’
•  ‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won’
•  ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind’
•  ‘Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’
•  ‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’
•  ‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty’
• ‘Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by’
•  ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’

•  ‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit’
•  ‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’
•  ‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad’
•  ‘Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’
•  ‘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’
• ‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you’
•  ‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine’
•  ‘Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love’
•  ‘Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties’
• ‘Love hath made thee a tame snake’
•  ‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them’
•  ‘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’
•  ‘I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster’
•  ‘Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love’
•  ‘In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow’
•  ‘A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known’

Shakespeare Quotes On Love and Friendship

•  ‘For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation’
•  ‘You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame’
•  ‘She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known’
• ‘Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love’
•  ‘Men’s vows are women’s traitors’
•  ‘Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof’
•  ‘Love will not be spurred to what it loathes’
•  ‘This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet’
•  ‘To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might’
•  ‘They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them’
•  ‘His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love’
• ‘What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!’
• ‘Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it’
• ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’
•  ‘Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’
• ‘Lovers ever run before the clock’
• ‘I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip’
• ‘I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you”
• ‘I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap’
•  ‘You have witchcraft in your lips’

•  ‘I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you’
•  ‘Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday’
•  ‘I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me’
• ‘Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’
•  ‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad’
•  ‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’
•  ‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit’
• ‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’
•  ‘Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by’
•  ‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty’
•  ‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’
• ‘Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’
•  ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind’
•  ‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won’
•  ‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired’