Source: Hamlet
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.”
“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”
Source: Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, the Whole of His Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes Compiled from Various Commentators
“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.”
“A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
“My heart is ever at your service.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“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
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”
“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
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties”
Source: The life and beauties of Shakespeare: comprising careful selections from each play, with a general index, digesting them under proper heads
“Love hath made thee a tame snake”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
“In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow”
“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”
“Men's vows are women's traitors”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Love will not be spurred to what it loathes”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare: In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays
“Lovers ever run before the clock”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...
“I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream