Shakespeare Love Quotes

Tag: Tragedies

July 7

Time and Love

I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

^Hamlet,
Act IV, Scene vii
July 3

Overpowering Passion

Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:
My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse;
And all my powers do their bestowing lose…
You have bereft me of all words.

Troilus and Cressida,
Act III, Scene ii
June 29

Love Dares

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt.

–Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene ii
June 23

Embrace

Let me enfold theeAnd hold thee to my heart.

^Macbeth,
Act I, Scene iv
June 22

Stability

Let your best love draw to that point,
which seeks best to preserve it.

-^Antony and Cleopatra,
Act III, Scene iv
June 11

Nothing But Love

Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.

–Troilus and Cressida,
Act III, Scene i
June 9

I Want to Know You

I must love you, and sue to know you better.

–King Lear,
Act I, Scene i