William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

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But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

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

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

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

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And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

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Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

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

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Cleopatra Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
All The music ho!
(Enter Mardian the Eunuch.)
Cleopatra Let it alone; let's to billiards.

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As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
Our worser genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take away
The edge of that day's celebration,
When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
Or Night kept chain'd below.

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Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

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

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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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Like to the Pontick sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up.

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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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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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And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it, Love-in-idleness.

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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description.

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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

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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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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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For to be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

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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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Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother.

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O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.

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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

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Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

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