Category Archives: William Shakespeare Love Quotes

Shakespeare, Love at First Sight and Consequences

“And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid Whose sudden sight hath thrall’d my wounded eye.” (Taming Of the Shrew, act 1, sc. 1) Comments. Recent scientific research (how I like this) has shown two explanations for love at first sight and related data. One, it takes an average of 0.13 seconds to Read More

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Shakespeare on the Uses of Poetry

“Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 3) Comments.  The Greeks had not one but four Muses of Poetry, Calliope (Epic poetry), Euterpe (Lyric poetry), Thalia Pastoral poetry) and Polyhymnia (Sacred poetry). Suggesting that poetry was more embedded in life and thought that our contemporaries may Read More

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Shakespeare on the Incompatibility of Love with Wisdom

 “… for to be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above. (Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2) Comments.  Cressida’s observation is hardly original. Ambrose Bierce, not directly testing the compatibility of wisdom with love, says about the latter,  “A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient Read More

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Shakespeare on How to Get to a Girl’s Heart

 “Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces, Though ne’er so black, say they have angels’ faces.” (Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 3, sc. 1) Comments. On flattery there is general consensus, it works. Oscar Wilde succinctly proclaimed that “flattery is the infantry of negotiations.” And Ovid, in his ‘Art of Love’, vol. 2 writes, “…each Read More

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Shakespeare, Compliments to a Lady and the Discreet Casanova

“Full many a lady I have eyed with best regards; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I lik’d several women; never any With so full a soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d, Read More

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Shakespeare on Silence and Happiness

BEATRICE. Speak, count, it is your cue. CLAUDIO. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. (Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for Use. Excellent reply when you are not in the mood to talk and your silence is interpreted as moodiness, Read More

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Shakespeare on Women and Roses

“For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.” (Twelfth Night, act 2, sc. 4) Tips for Use. The statement suggests a double standard and a trace of ‘macho’ philosophy. You may just use ‘Women are as roses’. But if she is an insufferable lady very full of Read More

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Shakespeare on Love, Words of Love, Music, their Similarities & Interconnections

“How silver sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” (Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use.  You may drop the line in passing, especially if she said something nice. Not everyone held the same idea on the matter. In “The Anatomie of Abuse”, Philip Stubbes (1583-1591) writes, Read More

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Shakespeare on Fresh Breath and Bad Breath Remedies if Needed

“The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweetens not thy breath.” (Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1) Tips for Use. Perfect answer if your better (or worse) half is concerned about her/his breath and queries you about it. Perhaps it is a case where a license to lie may be granted. The quality of breath Read More

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Shakespeare on Middle Age and Flowers for Middle Aged Men

“….Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. You’re very welcome.” (Winter’s Tale.4.4) Tips for Use. In Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets flowers are Read More

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