Shakespeare Quotes on Love

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate

— Sonnet 18, Lines 1-2

The course of true love never did run smooth

— A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1 Scene 1, line 134; Lysander to Hermia

If music be the food of love, play on

— Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 1, line 1; Duke Orsino

Speak low, if you speak love

— Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1, line 91; Don Pedro to Hero

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love

— As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 4, line 54; Rosalind to Corin and Celia

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned

— Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 1, line 15; Antony to Cleopatra

A heart to love, and in that heart / Courage, to make’s love known

— Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3, lines 115-16, Macbeth to Macduff

Love sought, is good; but given unsought, is better

— Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 1, line 153; Olivia to Viola

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

— A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1 Scene 1, lines 234-35; Helena

Hear my soul speak: / The very instant that I saw you, did / My heart fly to your service

— The Tempest, Act 3 Scene 1, Lines 63-65; Ferdinand to Miranda