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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i’ th’ bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by ViolaIn context
Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by Don PedroIn context
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Beauty
- Friendship
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by BenedickIn context
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by RosalindIn context
For your brother and my sister 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
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act V, Scene II, spoken by RosalindIn context
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RichardIn context
- Good & Evil
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 18 (1609)In context
- Beauty
- Poetry
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 116 (1609)In context
Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by PoloniusIn context
Come on, and kiss me, Kate.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act V, Scene II, spoken by PetruchioIn context
There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonyIn context
Eternity was in our lips and eyes
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by CleopatraIn context
When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act IV, Scene IV, spoken by FlorizelIn context
- Dancing
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950