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Love15 quotes
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599Ask me no reason why I love you, for though
Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counselor. — William Shakespeare · 1602Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. — William Shakespeare · 1602But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. — William Shakespeare · 1598All 15 quotes →Men and women5 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand. — William Congreve · 1695However we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women’s are. — William Shakespeare · 1602Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. — Noel Coward · 1930True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. — William Congreve · 1700Women5 quotes
Though she be but little, she is fierce. — William Shakespeare · 1599Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand. — William Congreve · 1695A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens. — Aristophanes · 414 BCCertain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. — Noel Coward · 1930From 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. — William Shakespeare · 1597Food4 quotes
Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. — William Shakespeare · 1599It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive. — Moliere · 1672One should eat to live, and not live to eat. — Moliere · 1669I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. — William Shakespeare · 1602Marriage4 quotes
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder · 1954If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve · 1693When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. — George Bernard Shaw · 1908The human condition4 quotes
Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare · 1616The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare · 1616The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. — William Shakespeare · 1616Appearance vs. reality3 quotes
All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare · 1616Dangers of love3 quotes
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. — William Congreve · 1700Death3 quotes
He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616Suns, that set, may rise again:
But if, once, we lose this light,
'Tis with us perpetual night. — Ben Jonson · 1606The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare · 1616Excess3 quotes
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598Looks are deceiving3 quotes
All that glisters is not gold—
Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare · 1598Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side! — William Shakespeare · 1616Mortality3 quotes
Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare · 1616The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare · 1616New love3 quotes
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten. — William Shakespeare · 1616O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day. — William Shakespeare · 1616Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! — Aphra Behn · 1687Relationship challenges3 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare · 1599No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. — Sir John Vanbrugh · 1696Secrets3 quotes
Dead men tell no tales. — John Dryden · 1680For secrets are edg'd Tools,
And must be kept from Children and from Fools. — John Dryden · 1667I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere. — William Congreve · 1695Tact and discretion3 quotes
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. — William Shakespeare · 1594Never say more than is necessary. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1775Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech. — William Shakespeare · 1616Temptation3 quotes
The flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire. — William Shakespeare · 1616Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Ornament is but the guilèd shore
To a most dangerous sea. — William Shakespeare · 1598Courage2 quotes
Fortune assists the brave. — Terence · 161 BCOur doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare · 1616Courtship and dating2 quotes
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve · 1693For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done. — Thomas Southerne · 1690Fading love2 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Now my love is thawed,
Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire
Bears no impression of the thing it was. — William Shakespeare · 1616Fate2 quotes
Time’s the king of men.
He’s both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare · 1608Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare · 1616Finality of death2 quotes
Suns, that set, may rise again:
But if, once, we lose this light,
'Tis with us perpetual night. — Ben Jonson · 1606We only die once, and for such a long time! — Moliere · 1656Flaws of men2 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600However we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women’s are. — William Shakespeare · 1602Honesty2 quotes
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. — William Shakespeare · 1611Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Infidelity2 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so. — Sir John Vanbrugh · 1696Justice2 quotes
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror. — William Shakespeare · 1616Truth will come to light. — William Shakespeare · 1598Justifications and rationales2 quotes
His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. — William Shakespeare · 1598The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! — William Shakespeare · 1598Living in the moment2 quotes
What is love? ’Tis not hereafter.
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare · 1602My advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy. — Thornton Wilder · 1942Looking back2 quotes
True is it that we have seen better days. — William Shakespeare · 1616Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear. — William Shakespeare · 1616Love is blind2 quotes
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. — William Shakespeare · 1598Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare · 1599