William Shakespeare was quite the Guru of Love as the following verses from his plays prove... Here's presenting selected gems from Shakespeare on Love starting with the arguably the most famous of them all:
Twelfth Night - Act 1, Scene 1
If music be the food of love, play on
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, Scene 1
Speak low if you speak love
Antony & Cleopatra - Act 1, Scene 1
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 2
The course of true love never did run smooth
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 3, Scene 2
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
Antony & Cleopatra - Act 5, Scene 5
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is dersired
Henry VI Part 1 - Act 5, Scene 2
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 1, Scene 1
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
The Tempest - Act 3, Scene 1
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 1
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
King Lear - Act 1, Scene 1
I love you more than workds can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 4
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Act 3, Scene 1
Whiat is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
The Merchant of Venice - Act 2, Scene 6
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit
