Quotes On Love
Shakespeare Quotations on Love
Here is our collection of Shakespeare's most inspired and romantic passages on love and devotion, perfect for Valentine's Day or anytime you want to delight your loved one with some unparalleled passionate poetry.
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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.
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
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Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
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Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
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As love is full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance
All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
To every varied object in his glance
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So loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,
Visit her face' too roughly.
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,
Visit her face' too roughly.
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If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved.
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved.
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,
Above their functions and their offices.
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,
Above their functions and their offices.
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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek.
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek.
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One half of me is yours, the other half yours
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
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I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush.
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush.
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This is the very ecstacy of love:
Whose violent property fore does itself,
And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
As oft as any passion under heaven,
That does afflict our natures.
Whose violent property fore does itself,
And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
As oft as any passion under heaven,
That does afflict our natures.
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What made me love thee? let that persuade thee
there's something extraordinary in thee. I cannot: but I love thee; none
but thee; and thou deservest it.
there's something extraordinary in thee. I cannot: but I love thee; none
but thee; and thou deservest it.
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All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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