William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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

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For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt.

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

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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

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

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

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

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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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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

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

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For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

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

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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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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
That every day with parle encounter me,
In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

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

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

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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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I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

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

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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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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

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

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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

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