Top 10 Shakespeare Love Quotes
1. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
2. Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
(Romeo and Juliet)
3. If music be the food of love, play on.
(Twelfth Night)
4. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
(Sonnet 18)
5. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
(Twelfth Night)
6. Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
(The Tempest)
7. I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
(Much Ado About Nothing)
8. One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
(The Merchant of Venice)
9. Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
(Romeo and Juliet)
10. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
(As You Like It)
'Macbeth'
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This Macbeth study guide is the ultimate guide to Shakespeare's shortest and most intense play. First
performed in around 1605, the play follows the rise and fall of Macbeth who is brought down by his
own excessive ambition. PS: (actors don’t mention this Title, calling it, instead, The Scottish Play”
'Hamlet'
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Hamlet, written in around 1600, is regarded by many as Shakespeare’s greatest play – perhaps due to
the psychological complexity of the central character.
'Romeo and Juliet'
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Your ultimate study guide to one of Shakespeare's best loved plays. Find out why Romeo and Juliet
has been so enduring.
'The Tempest'
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Written in 1611, The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s last plays and reveals the Bard at his most
imaginative and magical. In terms of the quality of language, The Tempest play is Shakespeare at his
best.
'Much Ado About Nothing'
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Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable romantic comedies. First published
in 1600, but probably written in 1598, the play enjoyed as much popularity then as it does today
Shakespeare Quotations Quiz
1 Correct
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! ... who would have thought the old man to have
had so much blood in him?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Othello
Good Job! The correct answer is "b".
2 Correct
O! That this too too solid flesh would melt / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew...
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Othello
Good Job! The correct answer is "a".
3 Correct
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.
a) Othello
b) Henry IV Part 2
c) Julius Caesar
Good Job! The correct answer is "a".
4 Correct
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
a) Henry V
b) Richard III
c) King Lear
Good Job! The correct answer is "b".
5 Correct
If we shadows have offended / Think but this, and all is mended
a) A Midsummer Night's Dream
b) The Tempest
c) The Winter's Tale
Good Job! The correct answer is "a".
6 Correct
All the world's a stage
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) As You Like It
c) Twelfth Night
Good Job! The correct answer is "b".
7 Correct
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
a) Henry IV Part 1
b) Henry IV Part 2
c) Henry V
Good Job! This quotation comes from Henry IV Part 2.
8 Correct
If music be the food of love, play on.
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) As You Like It
c) Twelfth Night
Good Job! The correct answer is "c".
9 Correct
Why there's a wench. Come on and kiss me Kate.
a) Much Ado About Nothing
b) The Merry Wives of Windsor
c) The Taming of the Shrew
Good Job! The correct answer is "c".
10 Correct
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
a) Macbeth
b) Henry V
c) Julius Caesar
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All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy Of Errors
Richard II, or III
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Measure For Measure
Merchant Of Venice
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Julius Caesar
Romeo And Juliet
Taming Of The Shrew
Tempest
Henry V (or Henry IV pt 1 and 2)
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Famous examples of William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations !
"To be, or not to be: that is the question". - Hamlet (Act III, Scene I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).
"This above all: to thine own self be true". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise
him". - (Act III, Scene II).
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - (Act I, Scene II).
"The course of true love never did run smooth". - (Act I, Scene I).
Best Known William Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations !
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes and Quotations from Hamlet
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Julius Caesar
William Shakepeare Famous Quotes from The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare Famous Quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare Quotes from King Lear
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Macbeth
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Othello
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - Timon of Athens
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - Titus Andronicus
Best Known Quotes and Quotations from As You Like It
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - Cymbeline
Famous Quotes and Quotations - Measure for Measure
Shakespeare Quotes and Quotations from Merry Wives of Windsor
Famous Quotes and Quotations from Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from The Tempest
Quotations and Quotes - Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare Best Known Quotes from Twelfth Night
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from King Henry IV Part 1
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from King Henry V
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - King Henry VI Part 2
Best Known Quotes and Quotations - King Henry VI Part 3
Famous Quotes and Quotations from Richard III
Best Known Quote from Antony and Cleopatra