William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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

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

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

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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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Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

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Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
Misguide thy opposers' swords!

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

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If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

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I must dance barefoot on her wedding day,
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

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For valour, is not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?

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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

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

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Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

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The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

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

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Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

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Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

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