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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (1598), Act III, scene i.In context
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 116 (1609), Sonnets (1609), CXVIIn context
- Marriage
I lov’d Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act V, Scene I, spoken by HamletIn context
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Prologue, spoken by ChorusIn context
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context
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 lovers’ tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Beauty
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Beauty
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by RomeoIn context
At lovers’ perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
- Truth & Lies
It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say “It lightens.”
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
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 Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene VI, spoken by Friar LawrenceIn context
Come gentle night, come loving black-brow’d 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,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act III, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context