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- I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act I, sc. 1
- If love be blind, it best agrees with night.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 1
- If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 2
- Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
- 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. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
- Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
- Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7
- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
- Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Lover's Complaint
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
- Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Venus and Adonis
- Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
- Love's reason's without reason.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act IV, sc. 2
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- My love admits no qualifying dross.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 4
- My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CII
- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXXX
- Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
- O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, sc. 3
- O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
- Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry V, Act 2, sc. 4
- She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
- Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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