Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Forgive me, forgive me for loving you and having let you know.
from the book "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
Forgive me, forgive me for loving you and having let you know.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [...]
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. It is my lady; O, it is my love! O that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.