William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

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The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow!

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

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The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.

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You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.

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

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Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

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Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool
Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

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She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix.

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What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

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I'll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.

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Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

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There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

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'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

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Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity.

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Fair Katherine, and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

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But love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offense,
Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

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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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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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I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.

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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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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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