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40+ Mesmerising Love Quotes By William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare is one of the greatest authors in history. In his plays and poems, he expressed love in a lot of lovely ways. Shakespeare's love quotes are well-known because they perfectly express the emotions that people experience when they fall in love. His words convey the joy, sorrow, craziness, and beauty of love. Shakespeare discusses how love can be complicated, how it can make life more beautiful, and how it can drive people to do crazy things. His sayings help us communicate difficult emotions and provide a deeper understanding of love.

People still read and love Shakespeare's words on love today because they feel true and real. Whether love is happy, sad, exciting, or confusing, Shakespeare's quotes touch hearts. His love words are like magic - they make us think and feel deeply about one of the most important things in life. Shakespeare's love quotes are like treasures that everyone can connect with. They remind us how love is a big part of being human. In short, Shakespeare's quotes on love are beautiful, touching, and still matter a lot today.  Get ready to dive into 40+ of his most beautiful and memorable quotes about love.

Shakespeare Quotes on the Madness of Love 

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1.  "Love is merely a madness."

2.  "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."

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

4.  "Reason and love keep little company together."

5.  "O hell! to choose love by another's eyes."

6.  "This is the very ecstasy of love."

7.  "To be wise and love exceeds man's might."

8.  "Love is a spirit all compact of fire."

9.  "Love, first learned in a lady's eyes, lives not alone there, but, like the sun, enlightens all the world."

10. "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."


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Quotes by William Shakespeare on the Beauty of Love 

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11.  "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."

12.  "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."

13.  "The course of true love never did run smooth."

14.  "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep."

15.  "Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books."

16.  "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

17.  "Love is a celestial harmony of united hearts."

18.  "When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony."

19.  "Love keeps the world warm."

20. "Love is too young to know what conscience is."

Shakespeare’s Quotes On Love's Complexity 

21.  "Journeys end in lovers meeting."

22.  "Love is a gilded toy, that turns to dust."

23.  "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

24.  "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

25.  "The love of many things is a love of nothing."

26.  "Love is full of unmeaningable notice."

27.  "For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings that then I scorn to change my state with kings."

28.  "Love's a mighty lord."

29.  "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch."

30. "They do not love those who do not show their love."

William Shakespeare quotes about Love at First Sight

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31.  "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

32.  "Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?"

33.  "I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

34.  "Mine eyes, even now, I think, did see thee first."

35.  "A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind."

36.  "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."

37.  "It is the very first time ever I beheld him."

38.  "When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."

39.  "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

40. "So it is that I love you, and I love you truly."


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Quotes on Depth and Certainty of Love

41.  "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."

42.  "I love you more than words can wield the matter."

43.  "If music be the food of love, play on."

44.  "My love is as a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease."

45.  "To be or not to be, that is the question." (Often interpreted in context of deep feeling/commitment)

46. "When I told you I loved you, I meant it."