Shakespeare's declaration of love?

Shakespeare's Love Quotes Since it seems to be a law of fate that true lovers should always be tormented, let us practice patience; for such torment is as much a follower of poor love as remembrance, phantom dreams, sighs, hopes, and weeping. --A Midsummer Night's Dream If a woman's love is shut up by a door, it will come out of the window; if the window is shut, it will come out of the keyhole; if the keyhole is blocked, it will fly out of the chimney with a cloud of smoke. -- "All's Well That Ends Well"...... Love enters a person's heart, and it can't be beaten or scolded away. When it comes to you, it will take over everything you have. --The midnight hour of love is as bright as the noon hour. --Twelfth Night, spirit of love! How sensitive and lively you are; although you have the capacity of the sea, no matter how noble and transcendent things are, they will lose their value in a moment when they enter your scope. Love is so full of imagery that it is the most fanciful of all things. --Twelfth Night Love! You go to the center of everything; you make the non-existent possible and communicate with dreams. --A Winter's Tale Love is the smoke that sighs blow; the sparks that it purifies in the eyes of lovers; the waves that it stirs up in the tears of lovers. It is the wisest madness, the bitter taste that chokes the throat, the honey that fails the mouth. --Romeo and Juliet, love is a tender thing, and it would be too much for it if you dragged it down with you. --Romeo and Juliet My generosity is as vast as the sea, and my love is as deep as the sea; and the more I give thee, the richer I am, for there is no end to either. --Romeo and Juliet Love is like an oil lamp; when the wick is burnt out, the flame dims and disappears. --Hamlet is more grand, more beautiful, more tenacious than it was. --We are like two exquisite needle-gods, embroidering the same flower and tracing the same pattern; we sit on the same cushion and sing the same song in unison, as if our hands, our bodies, our voices, and our thoughts were joined together in one indissoluble form. We have grown together, as two cherries, seemingly two, but actually one; we are two lovely fruits on the same stem, and though our bodies are separate, our hearts are only one. --A Midsummer Night's Dream ...... I am like falling in love with a brilliant star, wishing to be united with it one day, he is so high and unattainable; I can't go beyond my name and get close to him, but only under his dazzling light, to take a few minutes of him. I can't get close to him beyond my name, so I can only take a few moments of his light under his brilliant splendor, to comfort my hunger and thirst. --The true lovers of the world, when they lack new metaphors in their verses full of claims, oaths, and exaggerated similes, when they are tired of the same old phrases, such as being as firm as brass and iron, as faithful as the grass to the moon, the sun to the day, and the turtle-dove to their spouse --When they have exhausted all these metaphors of fidelity, and wish to add a stronger illustration, they may add, "as faithful as Troilus." --O Troilus and Cressida! The torch is not so bright as she; she hangs on the cheeks of the twilight sky, like a ring of pearls in the ear of a negro; she is the pearl of heaven come down to earth! Look how she dances with her partner, like a dove among the crows. I'll follow her when the dance is over, and shake her delicate hand. I've been in love before and it's not true, but tonight I've met the most wonderful woman! --The treasury of the pure Jeanne d'Arc was plundered by a thief, and that thief, Lust, is poorer than before. --The Humiliation of Lucrece If reason and lust were not balanced in our lives, the wickedness of our flesh and blood would lead us to an absurd end; but we have all the reason we want, which can wash away our raging passions, our carnal excitements, and our wild lusts. --Othello, when a man is mad, he will honor flesh and blood, and look upon a goose as a nymph; full, full idolatry! --Love's futility is the weakness of the intellect through thought, and the pain of the heart through adoration. --Time moves as slowly as a cripple with a crutch, until love has performed all its rites. --Lovers and madmen are so rich in confused thoughts and formed visions that what they perceive is never fully understood by cooler reason. --A Midsummer Night's Dream The dove pursues the falcon, the gentle deer the tiger; the weak pursue the brave, and always in vain. But I would die at the hands of my beloved, that hell might be turned into a heavenly palace. --A Midsummer Night's Dream The ambition of love is painful, and the reindeer that wishes to be matched with the lion must die for love. --What lovers vow to do is always more than they can do. --Troilus and Cressida The man who is suddenly blind never forgets the precious images that remain in his vanished vision. Show me a beauty whose beauty is so great that it will do nothing but make me remember that there is one in the world more beautiful than she - Romeo and Juliet Marriage is a solemn business, not to be decided by who we want, but by who he loves Marriage is a solemn business, not to be flung by brokers. It can't depend on brokers. It is not to be decided by whom we want, but by whom he loves, who shall be his bedfellow. --1Henry VI ...... They that can thus restrain their passions, and remain virgins to old age, ought naturally to be especially favored by heaven; but a married woman, like a rose plucked and refined, and whose fragrance remains, is better than a flower that blooms and dies in solitude, or a flower that is dying. But a married woman, like a rose plucked and refined, whose fragrance remains, is much happier in the eyes of the world than a flower that blooms and rots alone. --A Midsummer Night's Dream: courtship, marriage, and remorse are like the Scottish hustle, the slow step, and the five-step: at the beginning of the courtship, like the hustle, the proposal is frenzied, rapid, and full of illusions; at the time of the marriage, the marriage, as in the slow step, is bound by ceremonies and formalities; and then comes regret, with tired feet, and a long, weary step, and a long, long, long, long, long, long way. Then came regret, and, dragging her tired feet, she began to dance the five steps, faster and faster, until she was exhausted and fell into her grave. --Much Ado About Nothing Men are in April when they are unmarried, and in December when they are married; and girls are in May when they are girls, but when they are wives, the seasons change. -- "All's Well That Ends Well" We were willing to be driven by you until you were willing to be driven by us; but when you have taken the roses from our branches, you leave your thorns to sting us, and laugh at us for our old leaves. --A bad marriage is like a hell, where the chickens and geese fight all the days of one's life, and there is no peace of mind; on the contrary, if one chooses a good spouse, one can be in harmony for a hundred years, and be happy. --O Henry the Sixth, thou hast discerned the truth, and hast learned that all things must be known by right and by wrong, and not by conscience alone. --The Thémont of Athens We say in our court that beyond it all is barbarous; O experience, thou hast confirmed the falsehood of the rumor. The solemn sea produces dragons and salamanders, and the shallow streams only a few tasty fishes and shrimps to be eaten at the table. --In the long journey of life, when the torch is out, it is better to lie still, and not to go deeper into the paths of the lost. The might of the world is not without its heroes' sorrows. --Antony and Cleopatra It is better to play with a young lion than with a dying one. A man who is unlucky is most easily angered. --Antony and Cleopatra The hatred of a moment is often the cause of remorse; the pleasure of the moment, when cold, is turned into sorrow; the love of anger, the love of evil, is in the twinkling of an eye. --Antony and Cleopatra It is the priests, the cowards, the treacherous villains, the old and decrepit carcasses, and the unfortunate people who have sunk to the depths of self-absorption, who, fearing that they might not be credible for an improper reason, have to be deceived by oaths. --JULIUS CAESAR The falcon lets the birds sing, and cares not what they sing, knowing that the black shadow of his wings can stop their music at any time. ...... - TITUS ANDRONYX Titus Andronicus "The world is a fickle place, where just now friends are sworn to life and death, and in the cavities of two men as if they had but one heart, and sleep, and eat, and work, and play, are **** to each other, and dear to each other, and in the twinkling of an eye, for the slightest dispute, become **** to each other. --Coriolanus, after what is given is commanded, and before what is not given is asked. --Troilus and Cressida The validity of an oath depends on the purpose for which it is made; not any purpose can give strength to an oath. --Troilus and Cressida Nothing is known until the end. --Troilus and Cressida - What is done is done, and cannot be undone; and men often do things without thinking, but afterwards have time to think and repent. --Richard III It is as bad to wake a wolf as it is to smell a fox. --Henry IV, The Next Book - "The spear is easy to dodge, but the arrow is hard to guard against." Even the best of men can't escape from trickery and intrigue. --The first buds seen in early spring, hope does not guarantee their blossoming, but the merciless frosts have already destroyed their vitality. -Henry IV, Part 2 ...... Who, when the table is over, has as strong an appetite as when he was first seated? Which horse, on his long homeward journey, will gallop as long as when he started? -The Merchant of Venice The starlight shines first in the valley, and the cruelty of fate knows no bounds. --A Winter's Tale: A mansion built on other people's ground, and a labor of love is wasted because of a misjudged position. --Excessive satiety is bad for the appetite, and unrestrained indulgence results in the loss of freedom. Just as a hungry rat swallows poisoned bait, so a man, in order to satisfy the desires of his nature, will drink to his death. --The crow sings as well as the lark if he is not appreciated; and if the nightingale sings in the daytime in the midst of a flock of geese, it will not be thought to sing more beautifully than the wren. How many things, because of favorable circumstances, can reach the state of perfection, and win a proper appreciation! --The Merchant of Venice, when clouds rise in the sky, the wise man must add his garments; when yellow leaves fall from the trees, he sees winter coming; when the sun sinks in the west, he knows not that night is coming, and when a storm is unseasonable, he foresees that the year will be a bad one. --It is always the case in Richard III, on the eve of a change of times, that men's gifted minds are made to fear future crises, as if they knew a storm when they saw the sea rise. --Richard III understood well that he could not, by a moment's suspicion, root out the hostile forces at home; that his enemies and his friends were bound together and inseparable, and that to remove an enemy was to alienate a friend. As a husband enraged by his fierce wife, when he is about to strike her, she lifts his infant high, so that he cannot but be on his guard against it. --People will shut their doors to a sun that is not setting. --Tymon of Athens When Fate suddenly changes her heart, and kicks her favorite down the hill, those who have been climbing up the ladder, who have been creeping on their knees after him, now look coldly on his fall, and make none his companion in trouble. --The Athenian Tamen Once a man is unlucky, he becomes mud under the feet of all men, and once he is mud, no one will pick him up again. --Vinicius and Adonis" The devil would be more afraid of the evil of the heart than of the heart! The devil has made men so treacherous, that he will be sorry for it. --The Thelema of Athens Tell me what men have criticized me for, and do not be afraid of any scruple; ...... but reprove me for my faults, whether they be true or sinful, or whether they be nothing but malice and ridicule. Ah! This is the only way in which we can reflect upon ourselves, and calmly pull out the weeds from our hearts, and cultivate our barren virtues. --Antony and Cleopatra One or two of his defects can never conceal all his good qualities; his faults are like the stars in the sky, which are conspicuous by the darkness of the night; they are innate, not acquired; and he can't help it, he doesn't mean to do it. --Antony and Cleopatra, when men turn away their eyes from their own scandals, they are closely entangled in infamy! --The best of good men are those who have made mistakes; and a man is often made better by a small fault. --When men try desperately to do their work with great skill, their original skill is marred by greed; and to excuse a fault makes it seem as great as to mend a small hole in a piece of cloth, but it is more than it is worth. --King John, because the danger of tolerating the source of the trouble without correcting it is inevitable. --Richard II All the water in the ocean cannot make the swan's black legs white, though it is washed in the waves every hour. --Titus Andronicus In the eyes of a sycophant, even a mistake as great as the peak of Olympus can be overlooked. --Julius Caesar When we are in the midst of our sins, the wise gods seal our eyes, cast our understanding reason into our own filth, make us worship our errors, and laugh as we fall step by step into the darkness of our ways. --Antony and Cleopatra People are often blind to their own faults; and when they have done wrong, they cover them up with partiality. --A wise man never sits down and wails over his failures; he is optimistic and looks for ways to salvage the situation.