“Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.”
Source: 1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
Source: Macbeth
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
Source: The Sonnets
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“Such as we are made of, such we be.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
Source: As You Like it
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare
“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series
“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
“Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”