Shakespeare Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day


Fall in Love with Shakespeare through Valentine’s Day quotes. These Shakespeare love quotes celebrate romantic devotion and the joy of expressing love on this special day.

In this collection, with each quote is paired with a brief heading to highlight its meaning.

Shakespeare has so many ways to say “I love you.” Many of Shakespeare’s love quotes are much easier to understand than you might think.  The love quotes in this collection are nice for Valentine’s Day because they are short, positive declarations.

These quotations can easily be used for cards, gifts, or bouquets. They don’t require much, if any explanation. They stand well on their own. Your loved one will enjoy the poetic wording without having to struggle to know what you mean.

Speak your love with Shakespeare’s timeless words.

Hear my soul speak.
Of the very instant that I saw you,
Did my heart fly at your service.

–The Tempest,
Act III, Scene i

My passions are made of
Nothing but the finest part of pure love.

Antony & Cleopatra,
Act I, Scene ii

For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Sonnet 29

Sweet, above thought I love thee.

Troilus and Cressida,
Act III, Scene i

My true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.

Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene vi

Take all my loves,
My love, yea, take them all.

Sonnet 40

My kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love.

–Measure for Measure,
Act IV, Scene i

I would not wish any companion
In the world but you.

The Tempest,
Act III, Scene i

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

Sonnet 106

This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene i

A heaven on earth
I have won by wooing thee.

All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene ii

There shall not be one minute in an hour
Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love’s flower.

Venus and Adonis

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

Sonnet 88 

My love as it begins shall so persevere.

All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene ii

I know no ways to mince it in love,
but directly to say I love you.

Henry V,
Act V, Scene ii

What power is it which mounts my love so high?

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

My love…it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

Sonnet 116

And, that my love may appear plain and free,
All that was mine…I give to thee.

Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act V, Scene iv 

By my troth,
I kiss thee with a most constant heart.

Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv

O, then unfold the passion of my love.

Twelfth Night,
Act I, Scene iv

For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.

Sonnet 76

Thou shalt be worshipp’d, kiss’d,
Loved and adored!

Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act IV, Scene iv 

Still, I swear I love you.

Cymbeline,
Act II, Scene iii

Then happy I,
That love and am beloved.

Sonnet 25

My love hath in it a bond,
Whereof the world takes note.

–All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene iii

I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand.

Much Ado About Nothing,
Act III, Scene i

I, beyond all limit of what else in the world,
Do love, prize, honour you.

The Tempest,
Act III, Scene i

I love you more than words
Can wield the matter.

King Lear,
Act I, Scene i

I do love nothing in the world
so well as you.

Much Ado About Nothing,
Act IV, Scene i

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.

Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep: the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene i

The strong base and building of my love
Is as the very center of the earth.

Troilus and Cressida,
Act IV, Scene ii

Let me but bear your love, I’ll bear your cares.

Henry IV Part 2,
Act V, Scene ii

…had [I] force and knowledge
More than was ever man’s, I would not prize them
Without your love.

The Winter’s Tale,
Act IV , Scene iv

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks.

The Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene i

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

As You Like It,
Act II, Scene iv

O, that thou didst
know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it cannot be sounded;
my affection hath an unknown bottom.

As You Like It,
Act IV, Scene i

My love is thine to teach.

Much Ado About Nothing,
Act I, Scene i

O’ let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me.

Sonnet 21


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