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Quotations by Subject: Love
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Showing quotations 131 to 160 of 162 quotations in our collections

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Lover's Complaint
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Venus and Adonis
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
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.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
Love's reason's without reason.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act IV, sc. 2
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
My love admits no qualifying dross.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 4
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CII
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXXX
Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, sc. 3
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4
She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
The chameleon Love can feed on the air.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc.1
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc. 6
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. 1
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXXIII
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 2
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XXIX

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