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Love in Shakespeare's Plays
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Sonnet 18, The poet to the beloved
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo
They do not love that do not show their love.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julia
Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service.
The Tempest, Ferdinand to Miranda
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.
Romeo and Juliet, Juliet to Romeo
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena to herself
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, Portia to Bassanio
With adorations, fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino describing his love for Olivia
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
Sonnet 116, The poet
So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain.
Love's Labour's Lost, The King
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.
As You Like It, Rosalind about her parents
I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.
King Lear, Goneril to King Lear
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
As You Like It, Phoebe to Silvius
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick to Beatrice
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18, The poet to the beloved
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
Hamlet, Hamlet to Ophelia
Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
Sonnet 88, The poet to the beloved
O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon to Titania
Hear my soul speak. The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.
The Tempest, Ferdinand to Miranda
Speak low if you speak love.
Much Ado About Nothing, Don Pedro
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears; What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo about Juliet
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
Measure for Measure, Duke to Isabella
The course of true love never did run smooth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander to Hermia
Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well.
Othello, Othello about himself
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
Venus and Adonis, Adonis
When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Attr. to William Shakespeare, apocryphal (origin uncertain)
I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
The Tempest, Miranda to Ferdinand
I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
Henry VI, Part 1, The Dauphin to Margaret
When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Love's Labour's Lost, Berowne
If music be the food of love, play on.
Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo about Juliet
Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine: Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
The Comedy of Errors, Antipholus of Syracuse about Luciana
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo and Juliet, Juliet to Romeo
For where thou art, there is the world itself, And where thou art not, desolation.
Henry VI, Part 3, King Henry VI to Queen Margaret
You say you love; but with a voice Chaster than a nun's, who singeth the vestal's lay.
A Lover's Complaint, The speaker
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Romeo and Juliet, Juliet to Romeo
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