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

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

There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned. –Antony & Cleopatra

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

Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. –Much Ado about Nothing

The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired. –Antony & Cleopatra

She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won. –Henry VI Part 1

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

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? –As You Like It

Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs. –Romeo & Juliet

I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty. –King Lear

Love is like a child that longs for everything it can come by. –The Two Gentleman of Verona

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. –As You Like It

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. –The Merchant of Venice

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

Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad. –A Midsummer’s Night Dream

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight. –Romeo & Juliet

Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. –Hamlet

I would not wish any companion in the world but you. –The Tempest

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. –As You Like It

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. –Antony & Cleopatra

Love hath made thee a tame snake. –As You Like It

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them. –Othello

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster. –Much Ado about Nothing

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. –A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. –Venus and Adonis

Love goes toward love. –Romeo and Juliet

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