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Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright and poet, generally regarded as the greatest writer of all time in the English language. He was a prolific writer, penning 38 plays and 154 sonnets in his lifetime.

Shakespeare could be considered an expert on the subject of love, having produced some of the greatest love stories ever told. Could anyone say it better than the Bard? Here, we provide you with a collection of Shakespeare’s most famous quotes…

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
From his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
From his play, Romeo and Juliet

If music be the food of love, play on…
From his play, Twelfth Night

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
From his play, The Merry Wives of Windsor

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
From his play, The Merchant of Venice

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
From his poem, Venus and Adonis

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
And therefore is winged cupid painted blind.
From his poem, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
From Sonnet No. 18

The course of true love never did run smooth.
From his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love is a smoke made 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.
From his play, Romeo and Juliet

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
From his poem, Venus and Adonis

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
From his play, Twelfth Night

They do not love that do not show their love.
From his play, Two Gentlemen of Verona

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
From Sonnet 116

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
From his play, King Henry IV

My bounty is as deep as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
From his play, Romeo and Juliet

My heart is ever at your service.
From his play, Timon of Athens

One half of me is yours, the other half yours-
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours!
From his play, The Merchant of Venice

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
From Sonnet 88