Words of Love ~ Shakespeare

Getting ready for that special day of love next month? Here are a few William Shakespeare lines that might be of help.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The course of true love never did run smooth.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say “I love you.”
— Henry V

Speak low if you speak love.
— Much Ado About Nothing

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
— Much Ado About Nothing

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
— Romeo and Juliet

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.
— Romeo and Juliet

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.
— The Tempest

If music be the food of love, play on.
— Twelfth Night

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
— Twelfth Night

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
— Sonnet 18

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.
— As You Like It

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

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 That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
— Sonnet 116

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
— Love’s Labour’s Lost

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.
— Sonnet 75

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
— Venus and Adonis

I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour.
— King Lear

How passionate he was and his words continue to be!