Quotes by William Shakespeare

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What i...”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on...”

“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: Sometimes too hot the ey...”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

“Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring ...”

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees m...”

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, ju...”

“...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?”