Shakespeare Love Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

November 3

Love in Action

So true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act II, Scene ii
November 2

Kiss the Bride

…And seal the title with a lovely kiss!

–Taming of the Shrew,
Act III, Scene ii
November 1

Love Immutable

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

—Sonnet CXVI (116)
October 31

Return in Passion

Where hast thou been, my heart?
If from the field I shall return once more
To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;
I and my sword will earn our chronicle.

—Antony and Cleopatra,
Act III, Scene xiii
October 30

Love the Rogue

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 fixed evils sit so fit in him,
That they take place.

—All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene i
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 28

Love Me, Wait for Me

Stay, stay, I say!
And if you love me, as you say you do,
Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.

–Henry VI Part 1,
Act III, Scene i