“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“By this hand, I love thee. Beatrice Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I Love thee, I love but thee. With a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold, and the stars… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But rather reason thus with reason fetter: Love sough is good but given unsought is better.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. — William Shakespeare Copy Share