Quotes from William Shakespeare

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you

Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.

Every fair from fair sometime declines

Fair Katherine, and 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?

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

Love hath made thee a tame snake