Love Elevates
Base men being in love have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them.
–Othello,
Act II, Scene iii
Base men being in love have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them.
–Othello,
Act II, Scene iii
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds…
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
–Sonnet CXVI (116)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
–Venus and Adonis
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most.
–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v
O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou.
–Twelfth Night,
Act I, Scene i
Love’s arms are peace, ‘gainst rule, ‘gainst sense, ‘gainst shame,
And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.
–A Lover’s Complaint