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William Shakespeare Love Quotes

What did William Shakespeare have to say about love? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Here are 16 of the best William Shakespeare love quotes, drawn from our full William Shakespeare collection.

Speak low, if you speak love.

— William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

— William Shakespeare

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

— William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

— William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

— William Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

— William Shakespeare

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