Love Quotes by Shakespeare

Love Quotes by William Shakespeare


”Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time.”


”Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ”

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

”And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

”Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

”But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

”Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

”Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

”Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

”Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

”Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

”False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”


”Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”


“And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

”Speak low, if you speak love.”

”Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

”Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

”Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

”The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

”They do not love that do not show their love.”

”The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

”Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

“She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.”

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”

“When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.”

“O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.”

“Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.”

“He kills her in her own humor.”

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“Women may fail when there is no strength in man”

“You gotta be cruel to be kind.”

“Love is blind.”



“Brutus: Kneel not, gentle Portia.
Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus.
Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Is it excepted I should know no secrets
That appertain to you? Am I yourself
But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.”


“Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.”


“Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!”
“We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.”