William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.

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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

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There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

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Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

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Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.

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So they loved as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distinct, divisions none...

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I will a round unvarnished tale deliver
Of my whole course of love.

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O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

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This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

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How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

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And do so, love, yet when they have devised
What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized
In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

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Then, let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;
For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.

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If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.

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This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

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And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

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It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

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I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

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Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there.

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Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

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Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

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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.

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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

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