Saturday 6 September 2014

Shakespeare on Love




1. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
2. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
3. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
4. If thou remember not the slightest folly into which loves hast made thee run, though hast not loved.
5. But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy.
6. If music be the food of love, play on.
7. Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
8. Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support…
9. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
10. The courses of true love never did run smooth.

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