Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare on Love
1564–1616 England
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
If music be the food of love, play on.
Twelfth Night (1601)
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have.
I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
Othello (1603)
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence,
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
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)
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.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.