Shakespeare Love Quotes

A well-known English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. Often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”, he had a work consisting of some 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems and several other poems. He had also given some great love quotations during his time, which remain famous and popular years after as well. Given here are a few of such famous romantic quotes from his different works. These quotes will turn even more special when you use them to tell your beloved how much you love him/her and how much he/she matters to you. Read on further to know some of William Shakespeare’s love quotations.

Famous William Shakespeare Romantic Quotations

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.
Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals.
They do not love that do not show their love.
So long as I can breathe or I can see, so long lives your love which gives life to me.
So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Love is begun by time, and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
Speak low if you speak love.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love is not love which alters when it finds alteration.
It’s on in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Love is like a child, that longs for everything it can come by.
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that themselves commit.
I would not wish any companion in the world but you.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.
A heart to love, and in that heart, courage, to make’s love known.
In thy face I see honor, truth and loyalty.
I’ll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I’ll die by your hand which I love so well.
My heart is ever at your service.
Such is my love, to thee I so belong, that for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
I’ll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.

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