10 of Shakespeare’s most Romantic Quotes

Comic, romantic, poet, there wasn’t much that Shakespeare couldn’t do, but he seems best known for his magical way with language and for his almost always tragic love stories. Each and every one of us is likely to have at least one of Shakespeare’s most romantic quotes fixed in memory and his quotations have been adapted and rewritten through time.

We could easily write a list of a hundred of Shakespeare’s most romantic quotes, but we’ve narrowed it down to ten lines from his literature that are sure to make you swoon.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

From As You Like It

Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.

From Anthony and Cleopatra

When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

From Love’s Labour’s Lost

Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

From Sonnet 88

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
that I might touch that cheek.

From Romeo and Juliet

This is the very ecstacy of love:
Whose violent property fore does itself,
And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
As oft as any passion under heaven,
That does afflict our natures.

From Hamlet

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush.

From the Merchant of Venice

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.

From Romeo and Juliet

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

From Romeo and Juliet

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.

From The Tempest

So there you are. Doesn’t it just make your heart swoon? A time when men were unafraid to show their feelings, although it was also a time when men only took a bath once a year, you had to get in their dirty water after them, and it was perfectly acceptable to empty chamber pots out of upstairs windows!