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William Shakespeare on Valentine's Day

1564–1616 England

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For her own person,
It beggar'd all description.

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)

They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds.

Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast
And with the half-blown rose.

King John (1598)

Saint Valentine is past;
Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't.

Most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Such as will enter at a lady's ear
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

Henry V (1599)

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!

He hath a daily beauty in his life.

Othello (1603)

Prosperity's the very bond of love.

Heaven bless thee!
Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on;
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.

Henry VIII (1613)

As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.

Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Attribution

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