Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Love Advice

  • Elusive

    Elusive

    Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;
    Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Real

    Real

    My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming;
    I love not less, though less the show appear:
    That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
    The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.

    –Sonnet CII (102)

  • Don’t Keep Score

    Don’t Keep Score

    There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.

    –Antony and Cleopatra,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Good Love

    Good Love

    He loves you well that holds his life of you.

    –Pericles,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Love’s Enigma

    Enigma

    There be many that they have loved,
    They know not wherefore:
    So that, if they love they know not why.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Take Heart

    Take Heart

    Hope is a lover’s staff; walk hence with that.

    -The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act III, Scene i

  • Love Over Time

    Love Over Time

    Love moderately; long love doth so;
    Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

    –Romeo and Juliet,
    Act II, Scene vi