Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
William Shakespeare on Valentine's Day
1564–1616 England
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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
Measure for Measure (1603)
Julius Cæsar (1599)
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
Henry V (1599)
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.
Othello (1603)
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Beauty is brought by judgment of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
Beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
* * * few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.