Quotes from William Shakespeare

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground

If love be blind, it best agrees with night

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

Lovers ever run before the clock

Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.