Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Love Advice

  • Temperance

    Temperance

    O love,
    Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
    In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.
    I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
    For fear I surfeit.

    -Merchant of Venice,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Love Wins

    Love Wins

    What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d:
    Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
    Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

    –Venus and Adonis

  • Stability

    Stability

    Let your best love draw to that point,
    which seeks best to preserve it.

    ^Antony and Cleopatra,
    Act III, Scene iv

  • Precious

    Precious

    For love is still most precious in itself.

    –Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act II, Scene vi

  • Promises Kept

    Promises Kept

    Do keep your promises in love
    But justly as you have exceeded all promise.

    —As You Like It,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • Know Love

    Know Love

    Love talks with better knowledge,
    And knowledge with dearer love.

    –Measure for Measure
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Patience

    Patience

    If then true lovers have been ever cross’d,
    It stands as an edict in destiny:
    Then let us teach our trial patience,
    Because it is a customary cross,
    As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs.

    –A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
    Act I, Scene i