“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
Source: The Sonnets
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“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
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
Source: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“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
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
“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
Source: The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
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
“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.”
“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.”
Source: The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed ; in Two Volumes
“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 do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet