Shakespeare Love Quotes

Category: Advice and Wisdom

January 5

Take Heart

Hope is a lover’s staff; walk hence with that.

-The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act III, Scene i
December 29

Love Over Time

Love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

–Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene vi
December 26

Let Love Find You

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

-Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene i
December 23

Tell All

Come, come, disclose
The state of your affection; for your passions
Have to the full appeach’d.

-All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene iii
December 4

Foundational

Love loving not itself none other can.

–Richard II,
Act V, Scene iii
October 19

Qualified

I do not seek to quench your love’s hot fire,
But qualify the fire’s extreme rage,
Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

-Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act II, Scene vii
January 5

Take Heart

Hope is a lover’s staff; walk hence with that.

-The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act III, Scene i