“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”
More from Shakespeare on Love
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,To die upon the hand I love so well.”
“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo”
“... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet”
“Thou art a votary to fond desire”
“love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
“My only love sprung from my only hate.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”