Shakespeare Love Quotes

Category: Famous

October 29

Risking It All

My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

–Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene ii
October 25

Steadfast

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.

–The Tempest,
Act IV, Scene i
October 7

Look With Love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene i
October 3

A Madness Most Discreet

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet.

–Romeo and Juliet,
Act I, Scene i
September 27

Just For Herself

She is a woman, therefore may be woo’d;
She is a woman, therefore may be won;
She is [herself], therefore must be loved.

Titus Andronicus,
Act II, Scene i
September 5

Love Is Kind

Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;

– Sonnet CV (105)
September 1

Love Overwhelms

This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures.

–Hamlet,
Act II, Scene i