Category Archives: Romantic Shakespearean Quotes

Shakespeare on Women and Roses

Posted on August 25, 2012 by jimmie

“For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.” (Twelfth Night, act 2, sc. 4) Tips for Use. The statement suggests a double standard and a trace of ‘macho’ philosophy. You may just use ‘Women are as roses’. But if she is an insufferable lady very full of Read More

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Shakespeare on Love, Words of Love, Music, their Similarities & Interconnections

Posted on August 23, 2012 by jimmie

“How silver sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” (Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use.  You may drop the line in passing, especially if she said something nice. Not everyone held the same idea on the matter. In “The Anatomie of Abuse”, Philip Stubbes (1583-1591) writes, Read More

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Shakespeare on Fresh Breath and Bad Breath Remedies if Needed

Posted on August 18, 2012 by jimmie

“The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweetens not thy breath.” (Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1) Tips for Use. Perfect answer if your better (or worse) half is concerned about her/his breath and queries you about it. Perhaps it is a case where a license to lie may be granted. The quality of breath Read More

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Shakespeare on Middle Age and Flowers for Middle Aged Men

Posted on August 15, 2012 by jimmie

“….Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. You’re very welcome.” (Winter’s Tale.4.4) Tips for Use. In Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets flowers are Read More

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Shakespeare on Recognition and Name Recognition

Posted on August 14, 2012 by jimmie

“… and every tongue that speaks But Romeo’s name, speaks heavenly eloquence.” (Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 2) Tips for Use. It could be an answer to ‘Have you heard of So and So?’ where So and So is a lady of interest to you, e.g. ‘every tongue that speaks but (So and So’s) Read More

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Shakespeare on Modesty and Sex-Appeal

Posted on August 12, 2012 by jimmie

“… Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman’s lightness?” (Measure For Measure, act 2, sc. 3) Tips for use.  Here we have in verse the unassailable truth that modesty or elegant reserve are more enticing than explicit sexual messages. Regrettably many if not most of us have become inured to Read More

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Shakespeare on Dreams and Love beyond Dreams

Posted on August 10, 2012 by jimmie

“… all this is but a dream, Too flattering sweet to be substantial.” (Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc.2) Tips for use.  When the outcome of your action or hope went well beyond your expectations. Or when you meet with an extraordinary unexpected pleasant surprise. The surprise may not have to be limited to the Read More

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Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra and Answering a Request from a Woman

Posted on August 6, 2012 by jimmie

“…our courteous Antony, Whom ne’er the word of ‘No’ woman heard speak” (Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use. Whether you may mean it literally or figuratively, whether it is actually true or whether it represents your general inclination on the matter, the line makes an elegant answer to a request for Read More

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Shakespeare on Reply to “I love you” and to Express Surprise

Posted on August 2, 2012 by jimmie

“Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins… (Merchant Of Venice, act 3., sc. 2) Tips for use. Words of love hang on a very thin thread from which it is easy to fall from the poetic to the rhetorical, the exaggerated and the ridiculous. The Read More

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Shakespeare on How to End a Love Letter

Posted on July 30, 2012 by jimmie

“Thine own true knight, By day or night, Or any kind of light, With all his might” (Merry Wives of Windsor, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for use. A good ending, even if mildly overstated, to a love note or letter or card, at least the first two lines. Or all four, if you intend Read More

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