There is no author whose name has become more synonymous with the concept of amorous love than William Shakespeare. His tales of tragedy, triumph and of course romance have become the standard by which many of us have come to judge how far we would go for the object of our affection.
So if you are looking for profound words of praise to shower on your significant other or inspiration to go the extra mile in the name of romance, then it is a good thing you’ve found your way here – the Bard of Avon is here for you!
- If music be the food of love, play on. Twelfth Night
- There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned. Antony & Cleopatra
- I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. Much Ado About Nothing
- You have witchcraft in your lips. Henry V
- The course of true love never did run smooth. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- One half of me is yours, the other half yours
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
The Merchant of Venice
- Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado About Nothing
- Lovers ever run before the clock. The Merchant of Venice
- The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired. Antony & Cleopatra
- She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won. Henry VI Part 1
- Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? As You Like It
- Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet - What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by? The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. As You Like It
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit. The Merchant of Venice
- Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs. Romeo & Juliet
- No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage. As You Like It
- I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty. King Lear
- Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, Did
My heart fly at your service.
The Tempest - Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth night
- Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Speak low if you speak love. Much Ado About Nothing
- Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight. Romeo & Juliet
- I would not wish any companion in the world but you. The Tempest
- I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine. As You Like It
- Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. Anotony & Cleopatra
- Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties. Romeo & Juliet
- Love hath made thee a tame snake. As You Like It
- Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster. Much Ado About Nothing
- 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. - A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known. Macbeth
- You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame. Hamlet
- She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known. Much Ado About Nothing
- Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. As You Like It tr
- Love will not be spurred to what it loathes. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might. Troilus & Cressida
- I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you. Henry V
- They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them. As You Like It
- His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. Othello
- Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers? Troilus & Cressida
- Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it. Hamlet
- The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. As You Like It
- Men’s vows are women’s traitors. Cymbeline
- I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. Much Ado About Nothing
- I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you. Othello
- I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap. Henry VI
- She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. Othello
- Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again. Othello
- This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Romeo & Juliet
- For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation. Henry VI
- 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. - Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love. As You Like It
- In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow. As You Like It
- What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! Much Ado About Nothing
- 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.
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