101+ Famous Love Quotes by Shakespeare

Famous Love Quotes By Shakespeare, who is immortal through the dialogs and quotes from his literature like Romeo and Juliet, Othello, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra and many more.

We are all human-beings who are emotional and constantly need a touch of emotion. Even from our loved ones and also from friends and at our work place. many times it becomes difficult to express your feelings put up in a very decorative form. Quotes from Romeo and Juliet are phrased in such a manner, the person hearing it falls in love with the speaker, this is the power of words.

Here are some of the selected Shakespeare quotes for you to express your love in a very dramatic manner from now on.

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Famous Love Quotes By Shakespeare

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“There’s an old saying that applies to me: you can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game”. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love will not be spurred to what it loathes’ ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“To be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might’. ― William Shakespeare,Troilus & Cressida
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them’ . ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
‘His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love. ― William Shakespeare, Othello

Love Quotes By Shakespeare

“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. and the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
‘If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
‘There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned’ ― William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra
“Speak low if you speak love’ ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, should be so tyrannous and rough in proof”. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Excellent wretch! Perdition catches my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’. ― William Shakespeare, Othello
‘Lovers ever run before the clock. ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip’. ― William Shakespeare, Othello
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved that she did pity them. ― William Shakespeare, Othello
“Oh, how this spring of love resembles, The uncertain glory of an April day, which now shows all beauty of the Sun, and by and by a cloud takes all away.” ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Best Love Quotes By Shakespeare

What a pretty thing a man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?’ ― William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida
‘Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it’ ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’ ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps’. ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired.” ― William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra
‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; she is woman, and therefore to be won’. ― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

‘I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster’. ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
‘Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love’ ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
‘In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow’. ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
‘Men’s vows are women’s traitors’. ― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
‘I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Love Quotes by Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
My only love sprung from my only hate, Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love is it to me. That I must love a loathed enemy. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Come, gentle night, come, loving black-browed night, Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night.” — Romeo ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”— Juliet14. “If love be rough with you, be rough with love.” — Mercutio ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” — Romeo ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.” — Mercutio ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” — Romeo ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.” — Romeo― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven.” — Romeo ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” — Mercutio ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“Give me my sin again.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“He that is struck blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

Short Love Quotes By Shakespeare

“One fire burns out another’s burning, one pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Out of her favour, where I am in love.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Educated men are so impressive!” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
‘I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you”. ― William Shakespeare, Henry V
‘I’ll make my heaven in a lady’s lap’. ― William Shakespeare, Henry VI
‘You have witchcraft in your lips’. ― William Shakespeare, Henry V
‘I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you’. ― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o’Sunday’ The Taming of the Shrew
“Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Love hath made thee a tame snake, ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known’. ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation”. ― William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2
“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame’. ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die here she might make her love known’. ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love’. ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Beautiful Love Quotes By Shakespeare

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright , It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night. Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- Romeo -” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’. ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Who ever loved that loved, not at first sight?. ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.” ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Love is like a child, that longs for everything it can come by.” ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
‘What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?’. ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that themselves commit” The Merchant of Venice
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth night

Romantic Love Quotes By Shakespeare

“But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.” ― William Shakespeare
“If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly. That ever love did make thee run into, Thou has not loved.” ― William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved, that loved, not at first sight?” ― William Shakespeare
“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.” ― William Shakespeare

“Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love’ ― William Shakespeare , Hamlet
‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you’ ― William Shakespeare , The Tempest
‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine’ ― William Shakespeare , As You Like It
‘Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love’ ― William Shakespeare , Anotony & Cleopatra
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties’ ― William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare Love Quotes From a Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare (Act I, scene i)
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” ― William Shakespeare (Act I, scene ii)
“When you depart from me, sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” ― William Shakespeare (Act I, scene i)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind’ (Act 1, Scene 1)

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy, if I could say how much.—Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.” ― William Shakespeare (Act II, scene i)
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” ― William Shakespeare (Act IV, scene i)
‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.” ― William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” ― William Shakespeare (Act IV, scene i)
“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.” ― William Shakespeare (Act V, scene ii)

Shakespeare Love Quotes From Other Plays

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well that Ends Well
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, ‘I love you.’” ― William Shakespeare, Henry V
“I do love you more than words can wield the matter.” ― William Shakespeare, King Lear,
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound.” ― William Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost,
“One half of me is yours, the other half yours— Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did my heart fly to your service…” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” ― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Love sought is good, but given unsought better.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet,

Sad Love Quotes by Shakespeare

“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.” ― Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“These violent delights have violent ends.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Love Quotes From Shakespeare’s Sonnets

A sonnet is a type of poem written in a specific rhyming pattern, usually meant to be a love poem addressed to a specific person. Sonnets were already popular poems by the time Shakespeare came on the Elizabethan literary scene, but he truly made the form his own, writing 154 (that we know about) and causing one particular form of the sonnet to be nicknamed the “Shakespearean sonnet.” Sonnets are short poems at 16 lines, and usually the poem takes a “turn” toward the end where the poet expresses some sort of resolution or final romantic statement. I’ve linked to the full versions of the sonnets I’ve quoted from below, so go check them out in their entirety—but first enjoy these short Shakespeare love quotes from the sonnets.
“Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings. That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” ― William Shakespeare, (Sonnet 29)

“In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.
This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.” ― William Shakespeare, (Sonnet 73)
“Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark. That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” ― William Shakespeare, (Sonnet 116)
“My love is like a fever, longing still. For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please.” ― William Shakespeare, (Sonnet 147)

Shakespeare, the legendary playwright and poet, has left an indelible mark on the world of literature, particularly in matters of the heart. His words continue to resonate through the centuries, capturing the timeless essence of love and its complexities.

From the passionate declarations of Romeo and Juliet to the profound insights of Sonnet 116, Shakespeare’s love quotes have become a beacon of inspiration and a testament to the enduring power of love.

His words remind us that love knows no boundaries, defies societal conventions, and transcends the constraints of time. They remind us to seize love’s fleeting moments, to embrace its joys and sorrows, and to cherish the profound connection it creates between souls.

As we reflect on Shakespeare’s love quotes, let us be reminded of the transformative power of love and carry its wisdom with us, infusing our own lives with the same depth of emotion and unwavering devotion.