Shakespeare Love Quotes

Category: Advice and Wisdom

May 21

Promises Kept

Do keep your promises in love
But justly as you have exceeded all promise.

—As You Like It,
Act I, Scene ii
May 12

Cupid’s Wings

You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.

–Romeo and Juliet,
Act I, Scene iv
May 4

Knowledge

Love talks with better knowledge,
And knowledge with dearer love.

–Measure for Measure
Act III, Scene ii
April 27

Patience

If then true lovers have been ever cross’d,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs.

–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene i
April 23

Elusive

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

–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act II, Scene ii
April 10

Just Be Real

My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.

–Sonnet CII (102)
March 16

Don’t Keep Score

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.

–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act I, Scene i