"Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are".
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
"Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely."
William Penn (1644 - 1718)
"Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution".
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
"Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
"All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
"And ruin'd love when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXIX
"Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
"But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream
"But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 2
"By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3
"Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
"Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
"For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act I, sc. 1
"If love be blind, it best agrees with night."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 1
"If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
"If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 2
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove :
O, no! it is an ever fixed mark."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
"Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7
"Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
"Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
She was lodged and newly deified."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Lover's Complaint
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
:Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.:
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
"Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Venus and Adonis
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
Love's reason's without reason.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act IV, sc. 2
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
My love admits no qualifying dross.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 4
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CII
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXXX
Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, sc. 3
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4
She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
The chameleon Love can feed on the air.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc.1
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc. 6
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. 1
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXXIII
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change.
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 2
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XXIX
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act III, sc. 5
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