William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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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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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

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

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

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

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

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

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Give me some music—music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.

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Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

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See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

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How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.

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Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

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Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store.

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Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.

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Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleas'd with what he gets.

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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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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

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Whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.

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Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor
Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons,
Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
Or any one of you, chop off your hand
And send it to the King: he for the same
Will send thee hither both thy sons alive,
And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

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The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

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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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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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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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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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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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