William Shakespeare - Love Quotes

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The wounds invisible
That love's keen arrows make.

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When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies.

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Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
The eating canter dwells, so eating love
Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

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My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

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And yet by heaven I think my love as rare
as any that she belie with false compare

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Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

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Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.

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Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?

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I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well

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But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

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I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty

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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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I love him for his sake;
And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
That they take place when virtue's steely bones
Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

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Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
Without our grace, our love, our benison.

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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?

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My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.

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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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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

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They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them

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Down on your knees,
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

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Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

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