Shakespeare Love Quotes

Tag: As You Like It

November 11

Good as Gold

…Wooing thee, I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And ’tis the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at.

–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act III, Scene iv
November 10

Madness Everywhere

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as
well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why
they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

–As You Like It,
Act III, Scene ii
October 5

More Than All the World

I care not, I, knew she and all the world:
I love her more than all the world.

–Titus Andronicus,
Act II, Scene i
October 4

Ridiculous

But if thy love were ever like to mine,
As sure I think did never man love so,
How many actions most ridiculous
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?

— As You Like It,
Act II, Scene iv
September 23

Lovestruck

And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

-As You Like It,
Act II, Scene vii
August 2

Midnight Pillow

In thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As ever sigh’d upon a midnight pillow.

–As You Like It,
Act II, Scene iv
July 15

Folly

If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov’d.

—As You Like It,
Act II, Scene iv