“What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Merry wives of Windsor. Troilus and Cressida
“Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”
“With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out”
“By Heaven, I love thee better than myself”
Source: The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family
“Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“I love thee, and it is my love that speaks”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice
Source: Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow”
Source: Timon of Athens; Othello
“And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)
“I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful”
Source: The Comedies of William Shakespeare: Edited with Introductions and Notes ... by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the American Edition
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical
“Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.”
“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”
“Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice
“Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. I.
Source: Hamlet
“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.”
Source: King Richard III: Third Series
“Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series
“Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”
“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.”
Source: The dramatic works of William Shakespere: with original introductions, & notes to each play; & a biographical sketch of his life
Source: The works of Shakespeare
“Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III
“What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!”