Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs!
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. Why not couple some Shakespearean quotes to quell your stomachache chock full of all those saccharine sayings and candy hearts? The Bard is the best at comparing love with madness, and here are some excellent examples:
Cupid is a knavsh lad, thus to make females mad, a midsummer night’s dream – act 3, scene 3
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, much ado about nothing – act 2, scene 3
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?, troilus and cressida – act 3, scene 1
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me, much ado about nothing – act 1, scene 1
For all those lovesick folk out there, revel in this interesting fact I found:
“The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day.”
