Should I repent me. But once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Othello 5.2.7-13, OTHELLO, contemplating the sleeping Desdemona
1 The music of men's lives.
Richard II 5.5.44, RICHARD; more at MUSIC
2 Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity.
Sonnet 60.5-6
3 We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Tempest 4.1.156-8, PROSPERO TO MIRANDA AND FERDINAND
4 Life's uncertain voyage.
Timon of Athens 5.1.202, TIMON TO SENATORS
See also BIRTH AND CHILDBEARINC; EASY LIFE; FATE; FORTUNE; LIFE, making the most of; TRANSIENCE; WEARINESS
LIFE, making the most of
5 The time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
1 Henry iV 5.2.81-4, HOTSPUR TO A MESSENGER
LOOKING
6 In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes.
Lucrèce 84; Tarquin sets eyes on Lucrèce
7 Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth.
Venus and Adonis 464
LOSS
8 We have kissed away Kingdoms and provinces.
Antony and Cleopatra 3.10.7-8, SCARUS TO ENOBARBUS
9 Othello's occupation's gone.
Othello 3.3.360, OTHELLO, with Iago
160 I LOSS
1 O you gods!
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, And snatch them straight away?
Pericles 3.1.22-4, PERICLES
2 Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Sonnet 64.12-14
3 VIOLA What country, friends, is this?
CAPTAIN This is Illyria, lady.
VIOLA And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Twelfth Night 1.2.1-4 LOVE
4 'Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me.
All's Well That Ends Well 1.1.86-8, HELENA 5 Love that comes too late.
All's Well That Ends Well 4.3.57, KING OF FRANCE 6 There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
Antony and Cleopatra 1.1.15, ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA 7 Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.
Antony and Cleopatra 1.3.36-8, CLEOPATRA TO ANTONY 8 If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved.
As You Like It 2.4.32-4, SILVIUS TO CORIN 9 ROSALIND Not true in love?
CELIA Yes, when he is in, but I think he is not in.
As You Like It 3.4.25-6
10 The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
As You Like It 3.4.54, ROSALIND TO CORIN AND CELIA
LOVE I l 6 l
1 This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings.
Hamlet 2.1.103-5, POLONIUS TO OPHELIA
2 What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.
King Lear 1.1.62, CORDELIA, when she hears her sister speaking grandiloquently of her love for her father
3 Adieu, valour! rust, rapier! be still, drum! for your manager is in love.
Love's Labour's Lost 1.2.175-6, ARMADO
4 This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.
Love's Labour's Lost 3.1.180, BEROWNE TO COSTARD, of Cupid
5 Love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Love's Labour's Lost 4.3.323-8, BEROWNE TO HIS FRIENDS 6 A heart to love, a n d i n that heart
Courage, to m a k e ' s love k n o w n . Macbeth 2.3.115-16, MACBETH TO MACDUFF
7 Tell me where is Fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
It is engendered in the eyes . . .
Merchant of Venice 3.2.63-5, 67, song
8 I have pursued her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the wing of all occasions.
Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2.194-6, FORD, in disguise, to FALSTAFF, of his own wife
9 The course of true love never did run smooth.
Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.134, LYSANDER TO HERMIA
10 Brief as the lightning in the collied night.
Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.145, LYSANDER TO HERMIA, on love 11 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.234-5, HELENA
162 I LOVE
1 Cupid is a knavish lad
Thus to make poor females mad!
Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2.440-1, PUCK 2 Speak low, if you speak love.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.91, DON PEDRO TO HERO 3 Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.169-71, CLAUDIO 4 Loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Much Ado About Nothing 3.1.105-6, HERO 5 She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.
Othello 1.3.168-9, OTHELLO TO THE DUKE OF VENICE 6 One that loved not wisely, but too well.
Othello 5.2.344, OTHELLO, of himself, to HIS COLLEAGUES, before killing himself 7 Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the Turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence.
So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one:
Two distincts, division none.
Phoenix and Turtle 22-7
8 O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Romeo and Juliet 1.1.178-9, ROMEO TO BENVOLIO - before he has met Juliet 9 Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears;
What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
Romeo and Juliet 1.1.190-4, ROMEO TO BENVOLIO 10 Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
Romeo and Juliet 1.4.25-6, ROMEO TO MERCUTIO
1 What love can do, that dares love attempt.
Romeo and Juliet 2.2.68, ROMEO TO JULIET
2 This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Romeo and Juliet 2.2.121-2, JULIET TO ROMEO
3 It is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Sonnet 40.11-12
4 The prize of all-too-precious you.
Sonnet 86.2
5 Let not my love be called idolatry.
Sonnet 105.1
6 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.
Sonnet 116.1-2
7 Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark.
Sonnet 116.2-7; more at TIME
8 Two loves I have, of comfort and despair.
Sonnet 144.1
9 Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Sonnet 151.1
10 Spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou.
Twelfth Night 1.1.9, ORSINO TO CURIO
11 O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting:
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Twelfth Night 2.3.39-44, FESTE'S song; more at PRESENT, the
164 I LOVE
1 She never told her love, But let concealment like a worm i'th' bud Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Twelfth Night 2.4.111-16, VIOLA, as Cesario, to ORSINO, of herself 2 JULIA They do not love that do not show their love.
LUCETTA O, they love least that let men know their love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.2.31-2; a classic dilemma 3 O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3.84-7, PROTEUS
4 Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.3.7, JULIA
5 Love keeps his revels where there are but twain.
Venus and Adonis 123
6 Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
Venus and Adonis 149
7 Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.
Winter's Tale 4.4.575-7, CAMILLO TO FLORIZEL AND PERDITA
See also FLIRTATION AND SEDUCTION; LOVE, being in; LOVE, cooling; LOVE, expressions of; LOVE, falling in; SEX AND LUST
LOVE, being in
8 What did he when thou saw'st him? What said he? How looked he?
Wherein went he? What makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word.
As You Like It 3.2.217-21, ROSALIND TO CELIA
9 JAQUES What stature is she of?
ORLANDO Just as high as my heart.
As You Like It 3.2.265-6
LOVE, cooling | 165 1 The worst fault you have is to be in love.
As You Like It 3.2.278, JAQUES TO ORLANDO
2 Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
As You Like It 3.2.369-74, ROSALIND TO ORLANDO
3 O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love!
As You Like It 4.1.197-8, ROSALIND TO CELIA 4 Love hath made thee a tame snake.
As You Like It 4.3.69-70, ROSALIND TO SILVIUS
5 Thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done but to see him.
2 Henry IV 5.5.25-7, FALSTAFF describing himself to SHALLOW and PISTOL, as he waits to greet the new King Henry V (who will reject him; see BETRAYAL)
6 My mistress with a monster is in love.
Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2.6, PUCK TO OBERON 7 My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1.75-6, TITANIA TO OBERON 8 Alas, poor hurt fowl, now will he creep into sedges.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.191-2, BENEDICK, of Claudio
9 I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.3.23-4, BENEDICK on the transforming powers of love 10 What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and
leaves off his wit!
Much Ado About Nothing 5.1.195-6, DON PEDRO TO CLAUDIO, of Benedick 11 I am to wait, though waiting so be hell.
Sonnet 58.13
LOVE, cooling
12 I did love you once.
Hamlet 3.1.115, HAMLET TO OPHELIA 13 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
Hamlet 4.7.113, CLAUDIUS, referring to love
166 I LOVE, cooling
1 That time . . .
When love, converted from the thing it was, Shall reasons find of settled gravity.
Sonnet 49.5, 7-8
2 Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight, Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside.
Sonnet 139.5-6
3 I was adored once too.
Twelfth Night 2.3.178, SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK TO SIR TOBY BELCH
LOVE, expressions of
4 Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die.
Cymbeline 5.5.263-4, POSTHUMUS TO IMOGEN 5 Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
Hamlet 2.2.115-18, POLONIUS, reading a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia (with some scorn at his poor poetical ability)
6 I know no ways to mince it in love but directly to say T love you.' Henry V 5.2.125-6, HENRY TO KATHERINE
7 You have witchcraft in your lips.
Henry V 5.2.273, HENRY TO KATHERINE
8 For where thou art, there is the world itself,...
And where thou art not, desolation.
2 Henry VI 3.2.361, 363, SUFFOLK TO QUEEN MARGARET
9 I do love you . . .
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
King Lear 1.1.55-6, GONERIL TO LEAR
10 What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
Measure for Measure 5.1.533, DUKE TO ISABELLA 11 You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant.
Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.195, HELENA TO DEMETRIUS
12 I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man sweai he loves me.
Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.126-7, BEATRICE TO BENEDICK
LOVE, expressions of | 1 6 7
1 I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's.
Much Ado About Nothing 5.2.95-7, BENEDICK TO BEATRICE 2 Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Othello 3.3.90-2, OTHELLO, with lago, referring to Desdemona 3 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Romeo and Juliet 2.2.23-5, ROMEO 4 You alone are you.
Sonnet 84.2
5 My five wits, nor my five senses, can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.
Sonnet 141.9-10
6 Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate?
Sonnet 150.9-10
7 Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
Taming of the Shrew 2.1.318, PETRUCHIO TO KATHERINA 8 Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service.
Tempest 3.1.63-5, FERDINAND TO MIRANDA 9 ARIEL DO you love me, master? No?
PROSPERO Dearly, my delicate Ariel.
Tempest 4.1.48-9
10 What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not b y ? . . . Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale.
Two Gentlemen of Verona 3.1.174-5,178-9, VALENTINE See also ROMEO AND JULIET
168 I LOVE, falling in LOVE, falling in
1 What think you of falling in love?
As You Like It 1.2.24, ROSALIND TO CELIA
2 Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'
As You Like It 3.5.81-2, PHEBE TO SILVIUS; the second reference to Christopher Marlowe - the 'dead shepherd' - Shakespeare's recently murdered contemporary, in a short space; this is to his Hero and Leander (1.176). See also POETRY.
3 For your brother and my sister no sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason, but they sought the remedy.
As You Like It 5.2.32-7, ROSALIND TO ORLANDO 4 Are you a god? would you create me new?
Comedy of Errors 3.2.39; ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE falls in love with his twin brother's wife's sister
5 FERDINAND My prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?
MIRANDA NO wonder, sir;
But certainly a maid.
Tempest 1.2.428-31
6 At the first sight They have changed eyes.
Tempest 1.2.443-4, PROSPERO, observing the exchange above 7 The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
Tempest 3.1.64-5, FERDINAND TO MIRANDA 8 I was won . . . / With the first glance.
Troilus and Cressida 3.2.115-16, CRESSIDA TO TROILUS LOVERS
9 And then the lover, Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow.
As You Like It 2.7.147-9, from JAQUES'S 'Seven Ages of Man' speech 10 Lovers ever run before the clock.
Merchant of Venice 2.6.4, GRATIANO TO SALERIO
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