William Shakespeare Day 2018: 10 of his best quotes about love

If William Shakespeare were alive today, he would have been celebrating his 454th birthday.

While he only made it to his 52nd year, his prose has endured the centuries to make him the world’s best-selling fiction author of all time.

The poet, who spent days writing about devotion and what it meant to love someone, was a master of romantic musings.

Below we’ve rounded up 10 of his best quotes about love - and it’s making us want to bring back love letters immediately.

1. From the star-crossed classic Romeo & Juliet

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.”

2. On why you should never doubt love, from Hamlet

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.”

3. Wedding vow inspiration from The Merchant of Venice

“One half of me is yours, the other half yours

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours.”

4. A fresh take on cupid from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

5. Love at first sight from The Tempest

“Hear my soul speak

Of the very instant that I saw you,

Did my heart fly at your service.”

6. Falling in love from Romeo & Juliet

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

7. A new way to say I love you from King Lear

“I love you more than words can wield the matter,

Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.”

8. Being compared to a summer’s day in Sonnet 18

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

9. A romantic take on life from The Tempest

“We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.”

10. Life and love summed up in As You Like It

“No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.”

Ah Shakespeare, you do know how to make us swoon.