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Quotes about Love


A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

The rational hind Costard. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

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