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William Shakespeare on Love

1564–1616 England

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* * * few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.

What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?

That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.

King Lear (1608)

If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.

Even at this sight
My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,
It shall be stony.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.

Othello (1603)

The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.

Macbeth (1605)

Those he commands, move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

Macbeth (1605)

Sweet fellowship in shame!
One drunkard loves another of the name.

Let fair humanity abhor the deed
That spots and stains love's modest snow-white weed.

Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse
And presently all humbled kiss the rod!

Prosperity's the very bond of love.

You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.

Upon this hint I spake;
She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.

Othello (1603)

Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.

So perfumed that
The winds were love-sick.

Look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love; thou seest how dilgent I am.

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.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

On a day — alack the day! —
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air

I was in love with my bed.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.