I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?

William Shakespeare · Benedick to Beatrice in the church after Hero is shamed at her wedding; the sparring partners finally speak plainly.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

William Shakespeare · Hamlet at Ophelia's grave, grappling with her brother Laertes, the one moment he says outright what he felt.

They do not love that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare · Julia, doubting Proteus because he has said so little; her maid Lucetta answers at once that the deepest love is often the quietest.

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, "I love you."

William Shakespeare · Henry wooing Katharine of France as a plain soldier with no gift for pretty speeches; the courtship seals a peace treaty.

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.