“Tempt not a desperate man”
“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
Source: Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“As merry as the day is long.”
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.”
“My heart is ever at your service.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
“And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo”
Source: The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].
“So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected
“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you”
“Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one”
Source: The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes
“If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd”
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..
“I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes
“What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes”
Source: Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli
“Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“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
“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
“Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!”
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
“O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!”
“To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth”
Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere
“Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn”
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
“For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy”
“My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“So loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,
Visit her face' too roughly.”
“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
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
“Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.”
“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.”
Source: Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778
“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,
Above their functions and their offices.”
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.”
“Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“The prize of all too precious you.”
