Shakespeare Love

“I love to hear your beautiful voice, And I love to look on your handsome shape. All of your good qualities move me On first sight they make me want swear that I love you.”

— William Shakespeare, Titania, amazon.com

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

— William Shakespeare, Lysander, amazon.com

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”

— John Green, amazon.com

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

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

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

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

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

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love is merely a madness.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

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

— Shakespeare, amazon.com

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

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“I am one who loved not wisely but too well.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo, Juliet, amazon.com

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Lolita turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski, some local schoolboy she knew, talk about music, my Lolita remarked: ‘You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening. but love that...overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come rui…”

— Viola, amazon.com

“I love that word "relationship". Covers all manner of sins, doesn't it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship. A relationship based on the President taking exactly what he wants and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to, erm... Britain. We may be a small country but we're…”

— Hugh Grant, The Prime Minister, amazon.com