15 Best SHAKESPEARE Quotes About DANCING!

“To be, or not to be? That is the question!”

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. Shakespeare was born in the 1500’s, but his plays are just as popular today as they were when he was alive!

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays include:

Romeo And Juliet
Hamlet
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Macbeth

…And many more.

Shakespeare was one of the best English writers of all time, and it’s easy to see why. His plays feature timeless quotes about life, love, relationships, and more.

Whether you’re interested in deep philosophical quotes about life, funny Shakespeare quotes, or hot and heavy Shakespeare quotes about love and romance, we’ve got you covered!

Without further ado, here are the best William Shakespeare quotes about Dancing!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Dancing

“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.” -William Shakespeare
“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.” -William Shakespeare
“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.” -William Shakespeare
“For you and I are past our dancing days.” -William Shakespeare
“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.” -William Shakespeare
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hour Between our after-supper and bedtime?” -William Shakespeare
“For you and I are past our dancing days.” -William Shakespeare
“You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.” -William Shakespeare
“Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.” -William Shakespeare
“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight? -William Shakespeare
“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Dance

“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.” -William Shakespeare
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.” -William Shakespeare
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?” -William Shakespeare
“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.” -William Shakespeare
“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?” -William Shakespeare
“Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig–and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.”
“She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.” -William Shakespeare
“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.” -William Shakespeare
“Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.” -William Shakespeare
“All the world’s a stage.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” -William Shakespeare
“Let life be short: else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -William Shakespeare
“Beware the Ides of March.” -William Shakespeare
“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
“As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honor by the locks.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.” -William Shakespeare
“There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.” -William Shakespeare
“To do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” -William Shakespeare
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” -William Shakespeare
“My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I’ll unpeople Egypt.” -William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!” -William Shakespeare
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” -William Shakespeare
“The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’” -William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” -William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“ -William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..” -William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” -William Shakespeare
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare
“I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure / I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends; / And as my fortune ripens with thy love, / It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.” -William Shakespeare
“Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself; / For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such / As war were hoodwink’d.” -William Shakespeare
“My way of life / Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf, / And that which should accompany old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.” -William Shakespeare
“Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love.” -William Shakespeare
“My good friends, I’ll leave you till night.” -William Shakespeare
“Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love- / For such is a friend now; treacherous man, / Thou hast beguil’d my hopes; nought but mine eye Could have persuaded me.” -William Shakespeare
“To Milan let me hear from thee by letters / Of thy success in love, and what news else / Betideth here in absence of thy friend; / And I likewise will visit thee with mine.” -William Shakespeare
“That I will here dismiss my loving friends, / And to my fortunes and the people’s favour / Commit my cause in balance to be weigh’d.” -William Shakespeare
“Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” -William Shakespeare
“There is flattery in friendship.” -William Shakespeare
“But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.” -William Shakespeare
“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.” -William Shakespeare
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.” -William Shakespeare
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” -William Shakespeare
This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare
“The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, / The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies; / And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, / For who not needs shall never lack a friend, / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings.” -William Shakespeare
“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” -William Shakespeare
“That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal.” -William Shakespeare
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.” -William Shakespeare
“Keep thy friend, under thy own life’s key.” -William Shakespeare
“He that is thy friend indeed, / He will help thee in thy need: / If thou sorrow, he will weep; / If thou wake, he cannot sleep: / Thus of every grief in heart.” -William Shakespeare
“The presence of a king engenders love / Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, / As it disanimates his enemies.” -William Shakespeare
“To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, / Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown; / But where there is true friendship, there needs none.” -William Shakespeare
But to be rough, unswayable, and free.” -William Shakespeare
“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.” -William Shakespeare
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” -William Shakespeare
“To do a great right, do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” -William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” -William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy overflow of good converts to bad.” -William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good; but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” -William Shakespeare
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” -William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness, but ignorance.” -William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” -William Shakespeare
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!” -William Shakespeare
“The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” -William Shakespeare
“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour’d As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.” -William Shakespeare
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -William Shakespeare
“Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.” -William Shakespeare
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.” -William Shakespeare
“See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.” -William Shakespeare
“Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” -William Shakespeare
“So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.” -William Shakespeare
“Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.” -William Shakespeare
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayWhat’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.” -William Shakespeare
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.” -William Shakespeare
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!” -William Shakespeare
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?” -William Shakespeare
“I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.” -William Shakespeare
“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers’ absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!” -William Shakespeare
“What else may hap, to time I will commit.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.” -William Shakespeare
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” -William Shakespeare
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare
“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s a time for all things.” -William Shakespeare
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.” -William Shakespeare
“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.” -William Shakespeare
“Much rain wears the marble.” -William Shakespeare
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!” -William Shakespeare
“Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -William Shakespeare
“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.” -William Shakespeare
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” -William Shakespeare
“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” -William Shakespeare
“A plague o’ both your houses!” -William Shakespeare
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.” -William Shakespeare
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” -William Shakespeare
“I defy you, stars.” -William Shakespeare
“Give me my Romeo; and, when he 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 Shakespeare
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” -William Shakespeare
“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! -William Shakespeare
O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.” -William Shakespeare
“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -William Shakespeare
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.” -William Shakespeare
“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.” -William Shakespeare
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.” -William Shakespeare
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” -William Shakespeare
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” -William Shakespeare

“I defy you, stars[.]” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” -William Shakespeare
“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!” -William Shakespeare
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.” -William Shakespeare
“This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.” -William Shakespeare
“O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” -William Shakespeare
“A goodly portly man, i’ faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.” -William Shakespeare
“Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!”
“There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.” -William Shakespeare
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity to ‘get a toy For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy.” -William Shakespeare
“Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.” -William Shakespeare
“How sweet is love itself possess’d, When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” -William Shakespeare
“Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.” -William Shakespeare
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.” -William Shakespeare
“If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me To death with mortal joy.” -William Shakespeare
“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
“Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Think with thyself How more unfortunate than all living women Are we come hither; since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow, Making the mother, wife, and child, to see The son, the husband, and the father, tearing His country’s bowels out.” -William Shakespeare
“And now what rests but that we spend the time; With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befits the pleasure of the court; Sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy; For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.” -William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.” -William Shakespeare
“Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.” -William Shakespeare
“But here’s the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!” -William Shakespeare
“It is that fery person for all the world, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death’s-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!” -William Shakespeare
“My joy is death-Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish’d this world’s eternity.” -William Shakespeare
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne’er dream’d a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” -William Shakespeare
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare
“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; And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.” -William Shakespeare
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.” -William Shakespeare
“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much of loving you.” -William Shakespeare
“If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.” -William Shakespeare
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.”
“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you: Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of.” -William Shakespeare
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare
“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” -William Shakespeare
“Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -William Shakespeare
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.” -William Shakespeare
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound.” -William Shakespeare
“But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, / But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, / And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.” -William Shakespeare
“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.” -William Shakespeare
“This is the very ecstasy of love.” -William Shakespeare
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; when little fears grow great, great love grows there.” -William Shakespeare
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare
“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -William Shakespeare
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad.” -William Shakespeare
“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.” -William Shakespeare
“Love can transpose to form and dignity.” -William Shakespeare
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” -William Shakespeare
“Speak low if you speak love.” -William Shakespeare
“Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” -William Shakespeare
“Love me! Why, it must be requited.” -William Shakespeare
“Tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?” -William Shakespeare
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.” -William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.” -William Shakespeare
“Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight Drawn after you…” -William Shakespeare
“Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told.” -William Shakespeare
“O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me?” -William Shakespeare