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It’s Valentine’s Day. Guys, if you want to impress your girl this year with something deeper than a card signed with XOs, let Shakespeare finish it for you. Or for a real treat, quote him over dinner. Remember flowers wilt and die quickly but a heartfelt quote will live forever.

Here are some of my favorite Shakespeare love quotes

Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. Hamlet

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. Romeo & Juliet

Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs . Romeo & Juliet

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you’. Henry V

Speak low if you speak love. Much Ado about Nothing

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Midsummer’s Night Dream

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service. The Tempest

I would not wish any companion in the world but you. The Tempest

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth Night

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Yes, I know, it’s been awhile. Those who have long followed my ramblings may have guessed why. To my new followers I can only offer my sincerest apologies and say it is never my intention to disappear. Health issues sometimes derail me but never fear, I am not usually gone long.

Heart has been on my mind for the last two weeks so I thought I would share a few of my favorite Shakespeare heart quotes. As I studied the word and what it meant in Shakespeare’s day it became obvious that the idea of love, as emotion, sits in our heart was just as true then as it is now. Of all the phrases Shakespeare uses it appears that “with all my heart” is one that is uttered most often.

All’s Well That Ends Well

The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek.

I find my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the
fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not
daring the reports of my tongue.

Antony and Cleopatra

Choose your own company, and command what cost
Your heart has mind to.

Coriolanus

With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.

Henry IV Part I

O Lord, sir, I’ll be sworn upon all the books in
England, I could find in my heart.

Henry IV Part 2

By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart.

A cup of wine that’s brisk and fine,
And drink unto the leman mine;
And a merry heart lives long-a.

Love’s Labor’s Lost

A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon
the instant: by heart you love her, because your
heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,
because your heart is in love with her; and out of
heart you love her, being out of heart that you
cannot enjoy her.

Macbeth

My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.

Much Ado about Nothing

I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.

God give me joy to wear it! For my heart is exceeding heavy.

I’ll be back with a list in a couple of day. I cross my heart.

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Shakespeare

Shakespeare heart quotes

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